Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2008 19:24:25 GMT
Please can anyone help with this. My sister does technical translations from German to English and has sent me the following which I do not follow at all. - John
"Could you please tell me whether the following makes sense from an electrical point of view?
The German sentence translates syllable-for-syllable to this:
The rail treadle is a working current element, unlike the isolation,
which is a resting current element.
If I use the dictionary provided by the customer (always a dodgy thing to do) I get this:
The rail treadle is a open-circuit element, unlike the insulation, which is a closed-circuit element.
(BTW, a "rail treadle" is (they assure me) a thing on the rail that
reports whether or not an axle has passed it. Interestingly, this is different from the thing that counts the axles to decide when all the train that came in has gone out again.)
Could you please tell me whether either version makes sens to you? And if not, construct something that does?"
"Could you please tell me whether the following makes sense from an electrical point of view?
The German sentence translates syllable-for-syllable to this:
The rail treadle is a working current element, unlike the isolation,
which is a resting current element.
If I use the dictionary provided by the customer (always a dodgy thing to do) I get this:
The rail treadle is a open-circuit element, unlike the insulation, which is a closed-circuit element.
(BTW, a "rail treadle" is (they assure me) a thing on the rail that
reports whether or not an axle has passed it. Interestingly, this is different from the thing that counts the axles to decide when all the train that came in has gone out again.)
Could you please tell me whether either version makes sens to you? And if not, construct something that does?"
