Thread: Mitutoyo Fakes??

a mitutogo....lol

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Dial-Gaug...item2c8ea90834


and a carl-mahr...or is that also a mitutogo....?????

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Carl-Mahr...item1e9354c497

and what the hell is a puppatist...was that add placed by RayG... he makes up words like that..

Originally Posted by eskimo

and what the hell is a puppatast...

It is a device used a lot in some asian countries I believe...

Or it could be http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ssc=...dicator&_sop=3

Originally Posted by .RC.

It is a device used a lot in some asian countries I believe...

Or it could be http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ssc=...dicator&_sop=3

okay...so its a legitimate word....but I am still none the wiser

and I mispelt it..its "Puppitast"

google says it is a registerd name by Carl Mahr

does it mean something in german (or some other lingo)...probably "dial test indicator"

Originally Posted by eskimo

okay...so its a legitimate word....but I am still none the wiser

and I mispelt it..its "Puppitast"

google says it is a registerd name by Carl Mahr

does it mean something in german (or some other lingo)...probably "dial test indicator"

Messtaster is the German word for a DialTouchIndicator. Puppi has no meaning in German - it most likely comes from the misspelled English word puppy. PuppiTast, a baby-DTI. Not more no less a word play, than the American "Last Word Indicator".

'Puppi' is the German diminuitive for 'Puppe': a small doll. So a 'Puppitaster' is a 'baby test indicator'..... a perfectly legitimate German word.
Mahr chose to abbreviate it to 'PuppiTAST' in line with their other instruments ending in 'TAST'.

Originally Posted by jhovel

'Puppi' is the German diminuitive for 'Puppe': a small doll. So a 'Puppitaster' is a 'baby test indicator'..... a perfectly legitimate German word.
Mahr chose to abbreviate it to 'PuppiTAST' in line with their other instruments ending in 'TAST'.

The diminutive for Puppe is Püppchen. I have never heard someone say puppi instead. The word Puppi does not exist in Duden, the most exhaustive German language's inventory of lexemes there is (http://www.duden.de/suchen/dudenonline). The closest word that you can find is puppig, a rather rarely used adjective meaning cute, graceful, doll-like. However puppigtast is not an easy flowing word.... puppytast is, so maybe this is where it comes from? I guess we will never know exactly.

Originally Posted by jhovel

'Puppi' is the German diminuitive for 'Puppe': a small doll. So a 'Puppitaster' is a 'baby test indicator'..... a perfectly legitimate German word.
Mahr chose to abbreviate it to 'PuppiTAST' in line with their other instruments ending in 'TAST'.

ta Joe

I take it all back RayG

Originally Posted by eskimo

I take it all back RayG

And I thought it was something Italian women went to the doctor for?

Ray

Well; that's something new.

Contradicting somebody about the knowledge of their native language.

I'm with you Jo.

Ken

My money is on Joe's explanation…

Simon