Re: Pitfalls of german-english dictionaries. Was: What pulls in the tray of my /dev/sr1 ?
On Tuesday 28 July 2015 11:49:33 Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> The lure for error is even more appealing because both words
> have an abbreviation: "resp." and "bzw.".
We are back to the nub of the problem. Not in English, it doesn't; resp. is
meaningless, unfortunately. My spell-checker has just (correctly) objected
to it! Resp. is a German word, derived from an English word.
Every language has useful words that other languages don't have. And I still
haven't really understood what bzw. means, so I don't think that I'll be
adopting it any time soon.
Lisi
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