
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).

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1 comment:
very good explanation
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