Munir you know better than to feed that particular silly troll...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Munir Nassar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tclug@beitsahour.net">tclug@beitsahour.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 16:20, Chuck Cole <<a href="mailto:cncole@earthlink.net">cncole@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Check the web and correct those sources. This is not my invention: I used several web references to refresh my memories from German and linguistics. This is prevalent, if not entirely precise and accurate.<br>
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> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006_December_11" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2006_December_11</a><br>
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</div>i have read the above reference and all it is people recalling, as you<br>
did, hearing or reading about this word but no actual citations to<br>
bodies of work using this word.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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> My German teacher back in college is where I first heard this, and later in linguistic refrences. Perhaps you don't have enough gray hair. This *is* a linguist's issue, and you say that is not your strength. Long concatenations were common German usage 40 or more years ago, but I would not be surprised to find that modern usage has moved away from that as technology lingo became more commonplace and concatenation too cumbersome.<br>
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> Sorry, but yours is the specious and undocumented bullshit.<br>
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</div>While not orthodox, i did fact check my arguments against the German<br>
and English wikipedia. I ask you to refute at least one of my<br>
arguments before dismissing them.<br>
<br>
As for my German, it has been many years since i have last lived there<br>
but i converse in German with Germans on a regular monthly basis. I<br>
know what these long concatenations are, i even used a common modern<br>
example in one in my arguments. I did not call bullshit on the length<br>
of the word, merely on the fact that the word does not seem to make<br>
sense, and therefore does not seem likely. I also provided a reference<br>
to what the first German tank was called. What part of my argument is<br>
specious? What part of it is undocumented? Do you need me to come to<br>
your house and read the wikipedia articles for you?<br>
<br>
here are the articles that i have read about this,neither even<br>
mentions this word.<br>
<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer" target="_blank">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer</a><br>
<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_(1914" target="_blank">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_(1914</a>–1933)<br>
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and here is the article on the LastKraftWagen that i also mentioned as<br>
an example:<br>
<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/LKW" target="_blank">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/LKW</a><br>
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