Posted by Marcus Stollsteimer on 02/17/06 14:33

dorayme wrote:

> being meant, it is just "radar" in capitals. When folk say or
> write this word, it is just, by now, an English word meaning
> devices and beams for detecting ....
>
> (German submarines that are about to blow up Allied shipping...?
> - or as in the marvellous Das Boot, roughly other way around...
> Er, maybe that is going too far or is a bit in the past... but
> the movies are still playing... better not go on or BdeZ will
> increase my killfile time even further... (Can one be good inside
> a kf and earn parole or something?)

that would have been SONAR, also an acronym :-)

Regards,
Marcus

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No man does. That's his. -- Oscar Wilde

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