= Сообщение: 5312 из 12556 ====================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : Robert Bashe 2:2448/44 28 Aug 17 19:13:04 Кому : Gerrit Kuehn 28 Aug 17 19:13:04 Тема : Swedish meatballs ... FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:2448/44+59a44fe1 На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:240/12+5946cd31 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP866 ================================== Ответ: area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:203/2+59a48e1f ============================================================================== Gerrit Kuehn wrote to Kees van Eeten on Monday August 28 2017 at 16:58:
KvE>> Well there is no reason to associate a LKW with femenimity. ;)
GK> Maybe, but for a sports car? "Wagen" in German can mean any car, not GK> necessarily a LastKraftWagen (truck/lorry in English). At a GK> English-spoken filling station you will be saying: Fill'er up.
True. I don't know where that comes from, but I've heard it a thousand times. Still, I've never heard of a car (or truck) being called "her" in English. Only "it".
Now, that may be different among truckers, but I wouldn't know that ;-)