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From: stuart@bcsaic.UUCP (stuart gove)
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Subject: German translation of English computer terms
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Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 17:48:50 EDT
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The following is taken from the _Harper Dictionary of Contemporary
Usage_:

The sentence, "He updated the file," translates into German as

	"Er hat die Datei upgedated"

with the "a" in "upgedated" pronounced long.

Also, the German phrase for "software" is

	"immaterielle Ware".
	   
	  
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					Stuart Gove
					Boeing Computer Services

"I was a narrator for bad mimes." -- Steven Wright


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