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Subject: woof machines Помогите, плиз! Пожалуйста!Контекст: таблица о свойствах упаковочной фольги- фраза: Fabrication on all semi or fully automatic packaging machines made for polyethylene, e.g. horizontal and vertical tube bag machines, sealing bag machines, bag filling and sealing machines, woof machines. Что за лающие машины такие? Спасибо заранее! |
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/the_hitch/article1069220.ece So when is a word obsolete? You need to distinguish between the word and the thing. Crompton’s mule (the old spinning machine) is obsolete as a thing, but it’s very much alive (in history texts) as a word. Why was it called a “mule”? A mule is a hybrid animal, half male ass and half mare. And Crompton’s mule was a hybrid. Here’s what the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica said in 1797: “It is called a mule, being a kind of mixture of machinery between the warp-machine of Mr Arkwright and the woof-machine or hand-jenny of Mr Hargrave.” Settled. Warp-machines and woof-machines: Star Trek and robotic dogs? No, the language didn’t quite go that way. We will have to return to the subject of obsolescence and obsoleteness (compare the difference between contemporaneous and contemporary) when there’s more time. Уже проще - hand-jenny |
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