"ARMBAND" ;-) ...Jim Thompson
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Of course it should be "BAND, ARM".
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Phil Hobbs
That's Dutch for bracelet.
joe
Well, the medics did not want the trumpets and drums making noise...
But it's also Dutch for armband. De Grote van Dale lists both meanings, as jewellery, and an identifying band worn on the arm.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
First there is no 'Grote van Dale'. There is however the 'Van Dale Groot woordenboek van de Nederlandse Taal', previously: 'Van Dale's Groot woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal', previously: 'Nieuw woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal'.
Secondly, it is true that 'armband' has the meaning in Dutch of both jewellery and id tag, and that I *never* stated the opposite, and further vandale.nl translates the dutch word 'armband' to the English word 'bracelet' *only*.
So actually I have no idea what your 'But' is about. It's origin is probably that uncontrollable reflex of yours to oppose more or less everything I write in this newsgroup if you could, not unlike your uncontrollable butt's farts.
joe
On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 15:17:09 +0000, Joe Hey Gave us:
Let's hope not.
Correct. I wrote "Grote" when I was looking at "Groot".
I learned German before I learned Dutch, and some bad habits never got cured.
Then vandale.nl is inadequate, as was your translation as "bracelet" only - it was an error of omission, whence the "but" you object to below.
We know you don't have much in the way of ideas about most of the things you post about.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
Nor is there a 'Groot van Dale'.
So first you quote van Dale, then vandale is inadequate...
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joe
There is however a "Groot Woordenboek der Nederlandse Taal" often referred to as the Groot van Dale.
It is. The Dutch-to-Dutch option lists both "identifier" and "bracelet" as two alternative meanings, and the Dutch-to-English option just gives "brace let".
Your grasp of Dutch wasn't good enough to let you realise that this was an inadequate translation, and your grasp of economics inadequate to the task of working out why a free on-line dictionary might offer an incomplete tran slation.
My world accommodates a Concise Oxford Dictionary (240,000 entries and 1728 pages) and a Complete Oxford Dictionary (291,500 entries and 21,730 pages) . I wouldn't expect even the concise Oxford dictionary to be quite that ina dequate, but cross-language dictionaries can be remarkably sketchy.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
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