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Old 12th October 2021, 19:34
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Re: Help with German-> English translation

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Originally Posted by Larry deZeng View Post
Nice job, Nick!
One very tiny suggestion. In the passage "and I'm able to steal up on a LaGG-5", the word "steal" doesn't sound like the best choice to me and I would probably use "sneak up" instead. But my choice might just be an Americanism and therefore not sound right to you.

Larry deZ.
Either’s good but the Memphis Jug Band were Americans and, as all good blues fans know, they recorded “Stealin’, Stealin’” back in 1929!

P.S. I never thought of it before but I suppose “steal” in this sense shares roots with “stealthy”.

P.P.S. “watching the sky” would have been better than “watching the airspace” — I usually try to use language that RAF pilots used in their sortie reports.
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