... was done by goblins ) That's the Fairies Department, surely. Or should there be an apostrophe after fairies there? Surely not. M. Up the airy mountain, ...
Thanks very much to Beata, Jirka and Melvyn. This was quite perplexing, and you've cleared it up. Jamie ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Thanks to anybody who contributed to this thread. Actually, I did think of "immigration office/police" but then I abandoned it because here "imigracni urednik"...
Just because Prague English-speaking expats use the term 'foreign police' doesn't mean it's not Czenglish :) Your instincts are right... ... From: Vesely Petr...
Hello! Is there a single word/two words for "autosklo" or is in necessary to list all kinds of "sklo" in cars: windscreens, liftgate window, read door...
In the automobile industry they use the term "automotive glass". There are only two different kinds of glass in cars. The windshields are made of laminated...
"The Motor City" is a euphemism for Detroit, Michigan, which was the center of automotive manufacturing in the US (and at one time in the world). Now even...
Thanks, Jamie, which city is a Motor City? Oops, Hana, not A motor city, but THE Motor City, just put it through Google... thought you were working for...
Well, I guess Stuttgart should be called the original Autostadt, Coventry the Cat Town and Koprivnice the ultimate Aerodynamic Town, and I'm sure there would...
Was it about this size? http://photo.net/photo/pcd0737/detroit-skyline-tight-2.4.jpg By the way, anyone who has visited Cheb will find the pinnacle of our ...
I was referring to the first commercially available car, the Benz whatever, must have been around Stuttgart, VW came only later and had Ferry Porsche steal all...
Another bit of history. After World War II, Henry Ford II was offered Volkswagen, but he turned it down, thinking the cars didn't have any future. JK ... ...
Matej, I know: Wolfsburg will be celebrating 70 years soon - it was a village with 2,000 people before WW2. The population is 130,000 now and there is a...
Yeah, old Ferry was born in Vratislavice or some place like that near Liberec, he trained at what was then Tatra, worked briefly on a prototype which was...
... He didn't think CARS didn't have a future, he thought VOLKSWAGENS didn't have a future. Even in the 1960s, most Americans thought of VWs as being more toys...
... Bohemia, was not he? ... Liberec, Asi to je nahravka mym smerem: http://www.automuzeum.cz/ Kdyz se klikne na "kontakt", je tam take adresa rodneho domu...
I thought I'd share this with the group. This morning I got an e-mail from a company in Germany that's looking for translators. I didn't know whether to apply,...
The term "Foreign Police" is similar to the "Czech for Foreigners" idea. Is there anything like English for foreigners or German for foreigners? The term...
Things were always pretty smooth with my visa and extensions in Cheb. No more than half an hour's wait. That may have changed, though. What's always amazed me...
Hi, yes, that's true there's some tendency towards not to make it too easy for the "bloody" clients, customers, citizens, students, children... partners maybe,...
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I'm having trouble with how "test" should be rendered in the meaning of "zkusebni". I've got a document here that refers to "test products". "Test" here ...
... The first word you used in the explanation, "zkusebni", is actually my preference here. I think you are right that products made specifically for testing...
Thanks, Tom. This is actually a proofreading job from an agency that actually has a native speaker of the source language read the target language. (I ...
