Re: Verkantet in English

From: Ullrich von Bassewitz (uz_at_musoftware.de)
Date: 2005-07-17 09:53:22 

On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 11:50:07PM -0400, William Levak wrote:
> I met a guy today that is a native German speaker and speaks English very
> well and is also familiar with computer terms.  I asked him what
> "verkantet" means as a floppy error.  He said "not recognized".  The root
> word is the verb "kennen" which means to "know" or "recognize", with the
> prefix "ver" which means "not".  That seems to be the most reasonable
> explanation I have seen so far.

"Verkantet" is not a computer term, it's a term from mechanics (and in general
life). As already described, its stem comes from "Kante" which means edge.
"Verkantet" means that something is slightly tilted so that it doesn't fit.
You can find it in the German/English online dictionary on www.leo.org:

    http://dict.leo.org/?lp=ende&lang=de&searchLoc=0&cmpType=relaxed&relink=on&sectHdr=on&spellToler=std&search=verkanten

(the URL on one line). Or try

    http://dict.leo.org/?lang=de&lp=ende

and enter "verkanten" in the input box.

Regards


        Uz


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Ullrich von Bassewitz                                  uz@musoftware.de

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