I don't know whether I've led a sheltered life, but somehow the German word for canopy never impinged on my consciousness until this year, and I always want to translate it as "pre-roof", which obviously makes no sense whatsoever.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Fadenzugkontakt
German: Fadenzugkontakt
Sometimes the online dictionaries - and essentially everything else online - just don't cover something. Then, stymied, you go fix lunch and install Word on your son's new laptop, and come back and sit down to the clear realization that you already knew this one. It just needed a little time to gestate.
Tripwire. (Langenscheidt confirms, but you have to know what you're searching for first.)
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