Week 33 - Challenger 35K (M) - Bukhara, Uzbekistan

ForeverDelayed · Grand Slam Champion

Week 33 - Challenger 35K (M) - Bukhara, Uzbekistan

jezzauk · Lower Club Player

Stircrazy wrote:

jezzauk wrote:

Interestingly enough "Weintraub" means 'Crying Robbery' in German.
Rubbish! Where on earth did you dredge that up?

I got this from the translater part of dictionary.com. It's not always perfect and can be spectactualry wrong sometimes. evileye

It amuses me anyhow.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

johnnylad wrote:

Also, whats it got to do with germany. Weintraub is Israeli and they're playing in Uzbekistan!

To be fair, it wasn't completely irrelevant, just completely off target! The Ashkenazi Jews of Israel, i.e. Jews whose ancestors came from Germany, France & Eastern Europe, took with them, & contributed to the country's linguistic melting pot, Yiddish (a word derived from the German word for Jewish). Yiddish is the second-most widely spoken Jewish language after Modern Hebrew (itself a language which emerged in the late 19th century & is based on different dialects of Ancient Hebrew & heavily influenced by a variety of European languages, again including German), though it is not one of the state of Israel's two official languages (those are Hebrew & Arabic). It is based chiefly on High (i.e. standard) German, with borrowings from Hebrew & some of the Slav languages. Many of the immigrants from Germany, in addition to speaking German as well as Yiddish (and/or Hebrew) inevitably had, & have passed on to their descendents, German-sounding names... wink

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

jezzauk wrote:

Stircrazy wrote:

jezzauk wrote:

Interestingly enough "Weintraub" means 'Crying Robbery' in German.
Rubbish! Where on earth did you dredge that up?

I got this from the translater part of dictionary.com. It's not always perfect and can be spectactualry wrong sometimes. It amuses me anyhow.

I'd be wary of using it again in future in situations such as this, if I were you: if you're unfamiliar enough with a language to be forced to use such devices, you're never going to know whether it's telling you the truth or about to leave you with egg on your face - again...

There'll always be someone ready & willing to point out to you the error of your ways! wink

-- Edited by Stircrazy at 13:13, 2007-08-15

seagull · Hall of fame

Goodall lost 7-6, 7-5

What a crap week

Drew · Aug 15, 2007

seagull wrote:

Goodall lost 7-6, 7-5

What a crap week

crap you say....

Oxford english dictionary :

adjective : extermely poor in quality

Nothing really to add !!!

johnnylad · Tennis legend

booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

johnnylad · Tennis legend

we still have Stretch and Bhupathi

jezzauk · Lower Club Player

Stircrazy wrote:
I'd be wary of using it again in future in situations such as this, if I were you: if you're unfamiliar enough with a language to be forced to use such devices, you're never going to know whether it's telling you the truth or about to leave you with egg on your face - again... There'll always be someone ready & willing to point out to you the error of your ways!

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If I was on Live TV i'd care, but I don't. The only egg is on the faces of those who work at that site. I'm just gutted Josh lost. Not sure what you mean by 'Again', but i'll ignore it.