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[Urwumpe]

Help, am I supposed to buy the normal US, the German or the British (to have the same version as a good friend) version of the announced xkcd book?

Then again I can't explain five minutes of Orbiter in german without wondering what the german term for something is, so...yeah, it's Bahnneigung.

Try this in computer science. My English teacher at the vocal school tried to tell us that we have to translate everything literally into German. Luckily, the example of joystick convinced her that using a brain is better than dogma.

And I am sure as hell not going to translate MVVC into German - nobody at work would understand it.

What if I buy both English and German books and then rant about the bad translation?

 

[MattBaker]

Luckily, the example of joystick convinced her that using a brain is better than dogma.

Didn't she like your Beglückungsstab?
Although admittedly I've never seen a word being able to produce so many innuendos as joystick...

 

[Urwumpe]

No, and "Freudenknüppel" was no option.

:rofl:

 

[jedidia]

whoever coined that term in the first place? It must have had a lot of innuendo in english too before it became widely spread. Did it originate in the electronic entertainment industry or in aviation?

 

[MattBaker]

The first citation of the word in the Oxford English Dictionary comes from the diary of the British actor and aviator Robert Loraine. In 1910, he made this entry: "In order that he not blunder inadvertently into the air, the central lever - otherwise the cloche, or joy-stick is tied well forward."

But yeah, I would say it's one of those words that someone made up, someone else heard it, noticed the innuendo and began prefering the new term as a joke. Just like in middle school biology where you tried to use the word "organism" as often as possible...

If teenage me would be my son, I'd hate that guy...

 

[Urwumpe]

whoever coined that term in the first place? It must have had a lot of innuendo in english too before it became widely spread. Did it originate in the electronic entertainment industry or in aviation?

Nobody really knows it for sure, but it comes from the early history of aviation. Possibly from "George Stick". George & Jobling produced the first example of a joystick-like control system for a biplane.

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Edward_George"]Arthur Edward George - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

 

[jedidia]

like in middle school biology where you tried to use the word "organism" as often as possible...

Huh? Wasn't there enouh opportunity to talk about the real deal in middle-school biology?

 

[MattBaker]

Huh? Wasn't there enouh opportunity to talk about the real deal in middle-school biology?

No, when answering to a teacher's question.:lol:

The real deal was in like 6th grade and was the most silent lessons I've ever known.:huh:

 

[jedidia]

The real deal was in like 6th grade and was the most silent lessons I've ever known.

Yeah, that sounds familiar alright...

 

[Athena]

Thesis is nearly done but... :dry:

 

[astrosammy]

Arghhhh!

Another oversized image having problems to load,
which propably has a small thumbnail version which would be enough :lol:

 

[MattBaker]

Wait, if I use a warp drive to manipulate space around me so I can go faster than light and arrive at Proxima Centauri in a few days. And if I have an awesome telescope able to show Earth in great definition...I'd see Earth four years earlier?

to do list: Invent warp drive, invent awesome telescope, be done before 2066, jump to star a thousand light years away, point at Hastings

Solving the mystery of who is King Harold on the Bayeux tapestry...with science!

 

[jedidia]

Another oversized image having problems to load,
which propably has a small thumbnail version which would be enough

Seeing the image in context of the caption, and most of all the fact that the caption is at the bottom and quite visible, I would say that it's the whole gag of the image that it looks like it couldn't be loaded

 

[SolarLiner]

thousand light years away, point at Hastings

You just have to figure out Earth's position and rotation to be on the right spot to observe the historical even on the right place, at the right time.

 

[MattBaker]

You just have to figure out Earth's position and rotation to be on the right spot to observe the historical even on the right place, at the right time.

Yeah, because that is the hard part about the whole project.:lol:

 

[Fabri91]

 

[MaverickSawyer]

OK, now I want to make one of these!

 

[Ghostrider]

I want one too! With a chin-mounted potato cannon!

 

[SolarLiner]

Guys ...
1 000 pages on the Comments thread!

DISCLAMER: This only works with the default forum settings.
EDIT: Wait, wrong timing. Damnit, the magic didn't work once again ...
*SolarLiner leaves*

 

[mojoey]

We'll also hit 15000 posts somewhere on page 1000.