From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Dec 28 11:52:06 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA22624 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 28 Dec 1996 11:52:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id LAA22619 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 1996 11:52:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id UAA19650 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 1996 20:51:58 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA07871 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sat, 28 Dec 1996 20:51:47 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id UAA18233 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sat, 28 Dec 1996 20:39:40 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612281939.UAA18233@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/doc/handbook hw.sgml To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 20:39:40 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <7483.851797536@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Dec 28, 96 10:25:36 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I don't think there is one. Translating this would be about as > > pointless as translating ``Beamter''. :-) > There's an easy translation for the latter one: "bureaucrat" or > "bean counter" I don't know about the mental meaning of "bean counter", but i think no other country than Germany can really come up with the equivalent of "Beamter". The major point of such a beast is that he's not only paid by the state, but he also knows that he'll be paid forever by the state, regardless of whether he's doing something, or doing nothing. Well, moste Beamte are really best at doing nothing... To the best of my knowledge, all other countries would finally also fire their bureaucrats if they make too many mistakes. In Germany, that's simply impossible: they must be paid until they finally die. :-( -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)