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Conference vmszoo::rc

Title:	Welcome To The Radio Control Conference
Notice:	dir's in 11, who's who in 4, sales in 6, auctions 19
Moderator:	VMSSG::FRIEDRICHS

Created:	Tue Jan 13 1987
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1706
Total number of notes:	27193

1583.0. "Looking for a name. " by 24353::JETRGR::EATON (Dan Eaton St.Louis,MO,USA, 445-6522) Mon Feb 14 1994 12:52

A friend of mine needs some help naming a plane he's designed. It's a large bipe
that he designed with the goal of ending up with a big airplane he could take
to the field, quickly put together, and fly. Some of his previous bipes weren't
so easy to assemble and disassemble.

He'd like to call the plane the Big Easy because it's big and its both easy to
build and assemble. We don't know about the flying part being easy yet. While my
friend likes the symbolism behind Big Easy he also looking for something 
different in a name. He'd like to see what Big Easy translates to in several
different languages. Can anybody help?

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1583.1	big easy - german	FRUST::HERMANN	Siempre Ch�vere	`Wed Feb 16 1994 04:50`	11
	hi dan, >different in a name. He'd like to see what Big Easy translates to in several >different languages. Can anybody help? in geman big easy translates to: Einfach Gross joe t.
1583.2	RE:1583.1 'Einfach Gross'	24353::JETRGR::EATON	Dan Eaton St.Louis,MO,USA, 445-6522	`Wed Feb 16 1994 10:17`	3
	Thanks Joe, I'll pass that along. Now if I could just come up with a French and Italian translation.
1583.3	Franglais translation	BAHTAT::EATON_N	Personal Name Removed to Save Costs	`Wed Feb 16 1994 12:38`	10
	French (kinda) "Le Facile Grand", or maybe "La Facile Grande". Any self respecting frenchman will probably be barfing in his wastebin now, but I think it looks ok! 8^) Nigel
1583.4	FRENCH CORRECTION!	POLAR::SIBILLE		`Wed Feb 16 1994 13:24`	12
	No it does not! EASY IS "FACILE" or "AISE (with an accent on the e, prononced like azay)" IN FRENCH BIG CAN BE " GRAND " OR "GROS" so litteral translation would be: "LE GROS FACILE" OR "LE GRAND FACILE" or "LE GRAND AISE" OR "LE GROS AISE" although it does not sound very well in french "LE GRAND AISE" would probably be the closest to the english if you want to keep the same meaning. Jacques
1583.5	RE: 1583.3 & .4	24353::JETRGR::EATON	Dan Eaton St.Louis,MO,USA, 445-6522	`Wed Feb 16 1994 14:05`	7
	Thank Nigel for the attempt. Thanks Jacques for the correction. This gentman's origianl request was for a French translation. I think he might go for LE GRAND FACILE. I'll let you know. Anybody know Swaheli (sp?)?
1583.6	Yeah, well, ummm.....	BAHTAT::EATON_N	Personal Name Removed to Save Costs	`Thu Feb 17 1994 08:01`	14
	Knew it. Knew it! Sorry for the mutilation of the french language, but I couldn't resist the provocation! 8^) By the way, a Welsh friend of mine offers "Y Papsi Mawr", this apparently relies on some Neath slang, so may not be acceptable to true Welshmen! Cheers Nigel
1583.7	big easy: italian, french, spanish	FRUST::HERMANN	Siempre Ch�vere	`Thu Feb 17 1994 08:43`	19
	the big easy, in italien a straight translation would be: Simplicemente Grande, but this would not be used, better: Accidenti - this brings up some other associations...... my french translation would have been: Simplement Grand and to throw in my spanish also: Simplemente Grande (see the similarity between the roman languages...) or: Enorme, or: Gigante. have fun, joe t.
1583.8	I think he's settled on "LE GRAND AISE"	24353::JETRGR::EATON	Dan Eaton St.Louis,MO,USA, 445-6522	`Thu Feb 17 1994 12:52`	9
	I talked to my friend last night. He really liked Jacques' translation of "LE GRAND AISE". I'll pass along the translations from Nigel's Welsh friend and Joe T.'s translations but I think at this point the big bird's going to be known as "LE GRAND AISE".. My friend was amazed at the way I came up with the translations for him and asked that I pass his thanks along to everyone who helped. (Mr. Moderator, please delete this note string after 2/28/94)