This sign used to hang in our shop: (with apologies to our German friends)
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And I'm part German...
Actually, it's making fun of non-technical types.
Oh no worries! We are far less polite here in Europe! (Think Nuuska's jokes from Finland). In any case the sign is almost unreadable for a German......with apologies to our German friends
Which is the Americanized spelling of German "Heinlein". Heinlein seems to come from the given name Heinrich and Heinlein means like "little Hein(rich)"....her maiden name was Hineline.
Which is the Americanized spelling of German "Heinlein". Heinlein seems to come from the given name Heinrich and Heinlein means like "little Hein(rich)".
Ralf
I loved Robert Heinlein novels when I was a kid. Can anyone tell me how to pronounce his last name?
It was in the beginning, because all they could make for export was cheap toys.Sorry for the veer all but I remember growing up as a kid, the words "Made In Japan" were synonymous with junk and low quality. Don't know if it was ever actually true
Yeah it started with the cameras, then the stereo gear, then they finally struck a home run with the cars.but if so, those folks turned things around pretty well I do believe.
Oh no worries! We are far less polite here in Europe! (Think Nuuska's jokes from Finland). . . . Ralf
It was in the beginning, because all they could make for export was cheap toys.
Yeah it started with the cameras, then the stereo gear, then they finally struck a home run with the cars.
Well, after a couple of false starts, anyways.
That's why I qualified the statement with "for export".I disagree with "all they could make" - because the same situation exists today with some stuff from China, Korea etc
But the circumstances enabling it today with China and Korea are different than the circumstances that existed between the US and Japan back then, that's all.It is because OUR greedy businessmen order stuff at lowest possible cost to sell it to us at max profit.