a compass question

[bitofascallywag]

recently a freind bought a big old flash bronze compass with a bit of a mystery to it......instead of e for east it has o for where east should be ?it was suggested that o is the letter instead of e in some european countries.any ideas anyone.

[Simomatra]

My only suggestion is that it stands for orient which in some cases loosely means east http://www.ubeaut.biz/captain.gif

[Zed]

Hi,

The German language uses the work "Osten" for East.

Suden is south
Norden is north
Westen is west

thus the other 3 cardinal points are as english but east obviously is "wrong" :D

[Simomatra]

Hi,

The German language uses the work "Osten" for East.

Suden is south
Norden is north
Westen is west

thus the other 3 cardinal points are as english but east obviously is "wrong" :D

Did some more research after Zed's post and yes it is common for the German compass to be marked with O for East.

Well done Zed

[Zed]

Well done Zed

Bitte mien Herr, der Deutch schpreken is kein problem fur ich.

tchouse

Zed

Disclaimer - ich bin ein auslander, mien Deutch ist Klien.

[DanP]

Du bist ein gefickte fotze. :eek:

[Stuart]

Das kann sein, aber mindestens er geht in der rechten richtung voran

[DanP]

Das kann sein, aber mindestens er geht in der rechten richtung voran

The only German I know is what I said. :rolleyes:

Deutsch zu sprechen, ist nicht meine Spezialität

[Zed]

The only German I know is what I said. :rolleyes:

dou you know what you said ? what would your mother think ?:eek:

[Zed]

by the way - "har freaking har"

clowns (rolleyes!)

[DanP]

Das kann sein, aber mindestens er geht in der rechten richtung voran

"That can be, but at least it goes in the right direction ahead"

I'm guessing the translator is a bit off? :confused:

[Zed]

"That can be, but at least it goes in the right direction ahead"

I'm guessing the translator is a bit off? :confused:

he means, you imbicile, he may be the beared clam you cleverly called him in german, but at least he is correct. :D

[DanP]

by the way - "har freaking har"

Zed ist ein alberner kleiner Affe;)

[Zed]

Zed ist ein alberner kleiner Affe;)

red one on its way flatfoot! ;)

[DanP]

Ist gefickt :p

[silentC]

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[DanP]

Now you're just being silly. :rolleyes:

[Ashore]

Proberly the most frustrating job I was ever given was while working in the Techenical Dept to translate ships drawings into English from German this had been an ongoing job for months before I arrived as they had clerks trying to do it who couldn't find the words and didn't know what they were looking at anyway. The company had charted a German built ship and all the drawings were in German , days before computers, internet etc all they had was a the largest english german dictionary they could get note not not German - English But English-German.
The bigest problem was that the technical terms names wern't in the dictonary and the translator service wanted an arm and a leg because of all the techo stuff. Finally got onto a Liberian I knew at the Uni who introduced me to a German Engineering Student with good english skills, couple of BBQ's free beers etc and it was all done.

Point being Slient some of your translations look much the same ,
funny language is German why they don't switch to English beats me its got to be an easy language to learn , theres 4 and 5 year old kids around here that haven't even been to school and they can speak English. :D

Rgds