"Polytowers" Topic
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Tango01 | 03 Aug 2020 8:53 p.m. PST |
Nice job…
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Amicalement Armand |
Mark 1 | 04 Aug 2020 9:44 a.m. PST |
Good clean pics of some well-done models. But this thread is also an interesting case study of the shortcomings of online translations. Even though Google Translate may be correct word-for-word, in that "Многобашенники" is in fact "Polytower", a better translation for the title of the thread, taking into account context and common usage, would probably have been "Multi-Turret". When you say Poly Tower to me, I think more of…
Iconic 1970s polyester clothes being worn in some shiny building somewhere. -Mark (aka: Mk 1) |
deadhead | 04 Aug 2020 11:19 a.m. PST |
Now that was clever. I had no idea what Armand was on about with Polytowers…..the perils of online translation indeed. Nice detective work and was he ever really that thin? (he surely is not now) |
Tango01 | 04 Aug 2020 12:11 p.m. PST |
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Cerdic | 05 Aug 2020 6:20 a.m. PST |
Yeah. I'd no idea what polytower meant. The nearest thing I could think of was polytunnel… link |
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