But whatās that funny looking thing next to āqā?German Olympia manual keyboard, 1964
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Yes, youāve got it right. I like the sound of it.I want to know that, also!
Yes! The others I understand but not that one.
I got this from Google:
'Between themselves'
but I want to know Agonum's thoughts. Although he did say he liked the sound of the word, iirc, so maybe the meaning isn't the main focus.
āBetween themselvesā could work, too.
The āA with the circle on topā is āĆ„,ā the 26th letter of the Swedish alphabet.Great finds!
I wonder what the four dots button in the first picture means
And in the second one I was captivated by the A with the circle on top))))
Sweet ride.
Wow! SELTA! I never knew! Awesome!"So I have been translating since manual typewriters, carbon paper and Tippex were the way of working (and if you made more than a small mistake you had to retype the whole page). Ditto dictionaries, phoning institutions for help with terms, and writing letters with envelopes and stamps. I have followed the entire path from there to electric typewriters, early computers with magnetic cards, the advent of the World Wide Web, the internet, email zoom and so forth.
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Not like it used to be, though. Used to be a standard part of everyone's working day (or study day, if they were a student). Nowadays, not so much. It's not a museum relic, exactly, but it's not unusual to see an office stationery cupboard with no Tippex products at all.
@bluemoon7 - loving the new photo. It's beautiful
Thank you!
There is a story to it And you know part of it, because it started in this thread in August / September last year.Maybe I told the story already?
*tries to remember*In Swedish: pƤrlemorartad.a new beautiful word for me ...
in German: perlmuttartig ("like nacre")
English never seizes to amaze me with its sheer wealth of words! Stephen Fry once said that Great Britainās tradition of writing dictionaries is responsible for this. I donāt know how accurate that is, but I think it makes sense.
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oh. iswym. That makes sense. Hadn't thought of it like that. Did Germany and Sweden not have their own versions?
<goes on a hunt>
Found this but can't see anything re Swedish language electric typewriters. They must have existed. Surely?
The Swedish Typewriter ā Working typewriters
swedishtypewriter.com
DIN (Deutsche Industrie Norm = German Industry Standard) 2137
Thatās a fitting name!Joan Blondell in 'Blonde Crazy', 1931
It sounds very Swedish. So much so, I had to look it up. Her father was born in Poland to a Jewish family, her mother in New York to Irish-American parents. But the name doesnāt sound Polish nor Irish to me?
Aha! Was it a stage name, perchance?
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Yessss!German Olympia manual keyboard, 1964
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)) I am lateArrrgh no God please no!!
I love wild wild animals, too. Havenāt really thought too much about zoonosis, but Iād like to think that it ought to be a major concern in China, what with the uncontrolled market-places they have.I love wild animals ... in the wild.
Every time I see wild animals as pets, I think ZOONOSIS!!!!
Wow! You never hear about Zuse, do you?Germany:
Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse (German: [ĖkÉnŹaĖt ĖtsuĖzÉ]; 22 June 1910 ā 18 December 1995) was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941. Thanks to this machine and its predecessors, Zuse is regarded by some as the inventor and father of the modern computer.[5][6][7][8][9][10]
Germany also - in 2024
bluemoon7
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Great finds!
I wonder what the four dots button in the first picture means
And in the second one I was captivated by the A with the circle on top))))
Found this in a forum:
The button with the 4 dots is the edge release button. If the car drives to the left and the bell rings you can still type 7 letters, then the keyboard blocks. If you now press the 4 point key, you can continue writing.
(Die Taste mit den 4 Punkten ist die Randlƶsetaste. Wenn der Wagen nach links fƤhrt und klingelt kann man noch 7 Buchstaben tippen, dann blockiert die Tastatur. Wenn jetzt die 4 Punkte Taste gedrĆ¼ckt wird, kann man weiter schreiben.)
bluemoon7
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Health officials here also warn about getting too much contact to wild animals in general. Also, zoonosis can go both ways :-(
bluemoon7
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Well he is known here, but not in popular culture so much. You learn about him at school maybe and university. Or in quiz shows and crossword puzzles lol
This is a Swedish āslips,ā by the way:hope, I need to borrow this! It's a perfectly concise, perfectly accurate summation of the last 4 weeks of my life.
Horrible horror, indeed!
Wow! Fabulous description of Michael in that gif. Yes to all of this!
Another thing I'd forgotten, lol.
Electric typewriters seemed so groovy but, of course, they brought their own special set of problems / annoyances. They were more temperamental than the old-fashioned workhorses! At least until we got used to them.
I had my own electric typewriter at home, cute little blue thing. Used it for years, loved it to bits!
oh god, Tippex! The liquid was good but so were the little paper slips. Sometimes the liquid was too thick and blobby, if you weren't careful. Otoh, the paper was so small sometimes it disappeared into the innards of the typewriter.
bluemoon7
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This is a Swedish āslips,ā by the way:
Same here: "Schlips" (more formal: "Krawatte")
Oh, wait, yours is a fake one lol. Th ekind you just put on without binding a proper "Krawattenknoten"
And the minus and plus on either side of the space barā¦ what are those?German Olympia manual keyboard, 1964
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Huh?
But the āplingā is for telling you that youāre closing in on the paperās edge! If you write seven more characters after that, wouldnāt you move out of the paper?
Yes, indeed. Right you are.
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What theā¦ I didnāt notice! Thatās unacceptable! Not a proper slips, dang it!
We have ākravatt,ā too, but itās not strictly slipsar but āmanshalsdukā in general!
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Maybe it's adjusting the length of the spacing between words
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Ooh, are you going to tell us?Thank you!
Maybe I told the story already?
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