Help with German-> English translation

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Larry deZeng

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.

[Johannes]

Hi Guys

I have recently had to clean-up some computer translations German to English, which read terribly, hardly anything of it was flowing, and indeed the old pilots slang often completely baffled me because of the computers literal translation. So much so that the original wording was needed to make any sense at all.

I still think it'll be many years before computers replace interpreters, as my daughter(speaks about a dozen languages, unlike her old Dad) is an interpreter and tour leader, then I'm rather happy about that.

Keep well

Johannes