Thursday 8 October 2009

Can I borrow your bore machine?

Here's one that I believe is a literal translation error from German to English. The hand tool that many of us use to bore holes in walls, wood etc. is called a drill in English, after the verb, to drill, that you can do with it. Every once in a while, I'll hear a German call it a "boring machine" (bohrmaschine in German).

1 comment:

marek osadnik said...

very good explanation