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<p>[QUOTE="Fid, post: 1866192, member: 7724"]seems that NY museum simply translated one-to-one.</p><p>many local names for these - logical, because yokels spoke dialects that weren't understood in the next valley.</p><p>amongst others: Chumpf or Germanized Kumpf. or Schlotterfass (dangle-barrel) etc.</p><p>but certainly not atrocities like <i>Wetzsteintasche - </i>complete idiocy by someone that thinks he knows German.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Fid, post: 1866192, member: 7724"]seems that NY museum simply translated one-to-one. many local names for these - logical, because yokels spoke dialects that weren't understood in the next valley. amongst others: Chumpf or Germanized Kumpf. or Schlotterfass (dangle-barrel) etc. but certainly not atrocities like [I]Wetzsteintasche - [/I]complete idiocy by someone that thinks he knows German.[/QUOTE]
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