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Specifically the fractured track was a soldered joint that joined a track from 1989 with a new one from a few weeks ago.
by Findeton 8mo ago
Specifically the fractured track was a soldered joint that joined a track from 1989 with a new one from a few weeks ago.
- jacquesm 8mo agoSoldered eh? No wonder then that it broke.
- exidy 8mo agoEnglish is unusual in that we have both Germanic "weld" and Latinate "solder" and they've acquired different meanings. Spanish (and other Romance languages) use the term "solder" (soldado) for both.
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- duskwuff 8mo agoAs an aside: Chinese also uses the same term for both (焊接), and the standard English translation is "welding". This can lead to some confusion when Chinese manufacturers start talking about e.g. "surface-mount welding". :)
- jacquesm 8mo agoHeh, that would be a funny misunderstanding to have as well as the opposite, when you get back something soldered when you expected it to be welded.
- jacquesm 8mo agoInteresting. In dutch we use 'solderen' vs 'lassen', in German they use 'schweizen' and 'loten'. English has a third term like that as well called 'brazing', then there is silver solder (a high temperature version of soldering), in dutch we'd call that 'hardsolderen', whereas what the English call brazing we call oxy-acetyleen lassen (which is more of a process name by virtue of naming the ingredients). Soldadura autogeno and Soldadura en el arco (sp?) are what I think the modifiers used in Spanish to indicate brazing and (arc) welding.
- myrion 8mo agoSchweissen und löten. Has nothing to do with Switzerland (Schweiz) ;)
- jacquesm 8mo agoAh yes, you are right! I was going by ear, rather than by the written version, in fact I can't recall seeing it written. German is a language that I will happily use but don't ask me to write a letter in it, you'll probably need exponential notation to represent the number of errors.
- usr1106 8mo agoAs a matter of fact schweissen is only correct spelling in Switzerland. In Germany it would be schweißen.
- yread 8mo agoCzech uses "Pájení" (derived from "joining") vs "Svařování" (derived from "boiling". So, also different with different etymology in a language from a different group (although these things were probably influenced by German)
- m4rtink 8mo agoYeah - the Czech wording is quite clever: * the first one makes it clear a something (a different material) is used to join things together * the second one implies you melt/boil the things to join them together
- LorenPechtel 8mo agoThis was a track laid a few weeks ago? I think that's the problem.