Subject: Antwort auf: OT: Saunders's quote (was Re: [stella] Obfusicated From: kurt.woloch@xxxxxxxxx Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 08:36:03 +0200 |
Watthem M. Willer wrote: >>>"One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Promotional Ad >>>"Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer" - Adolf Hitler >>How many of you actually understand what this quote should say? >"One people, one realm, one chancellor", approximately. > By the way, I recall the standard way of rendering an umlauted >vowel in plain ASCII is to follow it with an 'e', so 'Fuhrer' should be >'Fuehrer'. I'd translate the Hitler quote with "One folk, one realm, one leader". I don't know if the word "Fuhrer" has got a "foreign word" in the USA like "Kindergarten" has. In this case it could be that this way of spelling it is usual. It's also spelled that y in the PC game "Wolfenstein". I only wanted to make sure Glenn hasn't put up that quote without knowing what it actually should say... and I don't know how popular that quote is in the USA, and which meaning it has there... it's in German, my mother language, and what's worse, my pa nts were children under Hitler and directly affected by World War II. My mother had to escape from Vienna, which was bombed back then, to an aunt in Styria, and the war brought a whole deal of pain about both of them, which in fact still affects my life oday. Since the war drained so many resources from the people, my parents had to find and eat what was there (the food was rationalized and could only be bought with tickets which were distributed among the people equally), so they learned to be content ith very few. And of course they tought me that way when I grew up. This is probably why I still spend so much time on cheap 2600 and other retro stuff instead of investing much more money in the newest PC, Dreamcast or PSX games, which I principally co d afford to do. So... I'd say the quote should point out that Microsoft is trying to get the same kind of importance Hitler tried to get. And this is surely a thing to take care of... which apparently US judges also thought when deciding Microsoft probably will have to plit in two parts. Apart from that, it's also important in the view of what happened to the Austrian government lately... I am Austrian, and right now, there are sactions against our government by the other 14 European Union states, which from time to time also affect the eople in some way (Austrians not carried by taxis, Austrian athlets disinvited from tournaments etc.). And I believe the US also supports these sanctions. But I don't know how much about this is written in the countries where the sanctions come from. Ov here, it's still in the news every day since the new government's inception about 100 days ago. And the reason for the sanctions is that the FPÖ takes part in the new government, which former leader, Jörg Haider, did some sayings in public which make h seem next to Hitler... but that's only him, not the whole government, which is why our government is trying to fight against those sanctions since they were incepted. I know this all hasn't got too much to do with our 2600 stuff, but seeing Glenn put that quote into his signoff, I wanted to point this out. This is no joke, I think, and it was necessary to explain it for all those who don't speak German and thus don't nderstand that quote. Basically, what Hitler was trying to say, in my opinion, was that there was one kind of people (in different countries before he put Germany and Austria together), which should be in one realm (Germany), under one leader (him). Mic soft, apparently, wants to say something similar with that quote... that they want monopoly about the WWW. With love (and many German quotes to clarify) Kurt Woloch -- Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/
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