Today's Danish lesson [modified]

[Rajesh R Subramanian]

Google translation (if you haven't tried that) says "Watchman" and "Count".

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[leppie]

Tom Deketelaere wrote:

Can't say if its an accurate translation tho, I don't speak Danish

Here's my guess (based on Afrikaans, which is very close to Flemish). vægter = wagter = guard (or watchman) (or maybe it could be fighter) optælling = optelling = count or sum or total of something

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[Pete OHanlon]

His spec says to count the watchmen? Is he writing this for the Danish secret service?

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[Tom Deketelaere]

leppie wrote:

optælling = optelling = count or sum or total of something

For that one I had the same thought process. But

leppie wrote:

vægter = wagter = guard (or watchman) (or maybe it could be fighter)

Guard in Flemish = 'bewaker', so I didn't get it on my own. I find that google is very accurate for most languages (that I try'd), except for romanian/bulgarian.

[Tom Deketelaere]

:laugh: shhhh it's a secret ;P

[Dalek Dave]

Having seen the translations, it is obvious in english! Vægter - becomes V er cgh ter becomes W echt er becomes watcher or GUARD and Optælling - becomes Up Telling (telling in this case like a bank teller) thus a tallying up, or SUM Now I have 2 new Danish words, to add the only other Danish Word I know. Barnebarn - Grandchild!

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[Nagy Vilmos]

I'm thinking there could be contextual item missing here unless you really need to count the guards.

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[Dalek Dave]

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[Brady Kelly]

leppie wrote:

optælling = optelling = count or sum or total of something

Accumulator!

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[Brady Kelly]

Tom Deketelaere wrote:

Guard in Flemish = 'bewaker', so I didn't get it on my own.

bewaker and wagter have similar phonemes. Anyone could have made the connection. :laugh:

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[Brady Kelly]

Dalek Dave wrote:

Barnebarn - Grandchild!

And that, I suppose, would be akin (haha) to bairn's bairn.

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[Lost User]

Johann Gerell wrote:

optælling

Nice, looks like optelling (dutch)

[leppie]

Brady Kelly wrote:

Accumulator!

But that would be 'opteller', the maker of 'optellings' :)

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[Brady Kelly]

Well, maybe the register should actually be called the accumulation, and the ALU the accumulator.

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[Nagy Vilmos]

Vimes!

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[Sebastian Schneider]

I actually got the first one right away: "Wächter" is the German word for guard...

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[Caslen]

Counting the guards or guarding the count? In the the second case it could mean keeping count.