Friday update and duscussions 2011-02-18

[Triggaaar]

Originally Posted by zauii

So despite the fact that the man behind the game itself posted a few rows above you that it wouldnt get delayed you keep referring to amazon etc? ....

Just to be clear, Oleg said 'At the moment there is no changes for the release date' - he didn't say it won't get delayed.

Originally Posted by robtek

Thats a interpretion of stream that isn't shared by many, i assume.
A stream is a very large river!

No it isn't. A stream is smaller than a river.

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Triggaaar

No it isn't. A stream is smaller than a river.

In German it's the other way around.

[Gromic]

Originally Posted by swiss

In German it's the other way around.

Since when is a "Bach (stream)" larger than a "Fluss (river)"?

yours truely "perplexed"

Gromic

[FG28_Kodiak]

Stream also means Strom, and a Strom is larger than a river, in german.
Komm schließlich von da!
But in English a Strom is called major or large river, so its a multiculti misunderstanding

[addman]

Yeah, we have the word "ström" in Swedish. This is getting a bit off topic though.

[Ploughman]

In Yorkshire a very small stream would be called a beck, which seems so similar to your German bach they must be related.

True about the rivers, makes England look like the mouth of the Amazon. I know it rains here a bit, but not that much.

[FG28_Kodiak]

@gromic
Ich sitze so ziemlich genau in der Mitte zwischen Augsburg und Ulm

So now BTT.

[Freycinet]

Originally Posted by Ploughman

In Yorkshire a very small stream would be called a beck, which seems so similar to your German bach they must be related.

Pretty sure you got that from us Danes during the Danelaw. Here we call it "bæk", and it is pronounced exactly as "beck".

[Gromic]

Originally Posted by FG28_Kodiak

Stream also means
Komm schließlich von da!

Geil, ich auch und sitze z.Z. 25km Südlich von Aschaffenburg in Bayern.

Anyway, I'm sure "stream", refers to small, winding bodies of water that usually intersect with a river, entity of water, etc.

Stream in the sense of "strom'"would pertain, for example, to the gulf stream which, IS much larger than a river.

hehe - sorry for going OT. Language can be fun.

cheers

[Triggaaar]

Originally Posted by FG28_Kodiak

Stream also means Strom, and a Strom is larger than a river, in german.
Komm schließlich von da!
But in English a Strom is called major or large river, so its a multiculti misunderstanding

What?

If a 'Strom' is called a major or large river in English
and in English a stream is smaller that a river...

how does Stream mean Strom?

I don't speak German, but on the evidence posted I suggest that 'Stream' in English does not mean 'Strom' in German.

Someone posted, in English, that a stream was bigger than a river. They got it wrong, never mind, let's move on.