Sinister: please... don't butcher two languages

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not your senorita wrote:

Our German friends, however, chose to call their aeroplanes "MESSERSCHMITT"
which means "Mister Smith". I rest my case.>>>

i think that someone already pointed out that "das Messer" means "the knife" 
but i have to point out that i have never, ever heard anyone refer to "ein 
Flugzeug" (airplane : literally translated : flying thing) as anything but 
"Flugzeug." sorry to rain on the parade. it might be that i live in the 
south and the bavarians don't use that word, but when i lived in frankfurt i 
didn't hear that either.

the closest thing to Messerschmitt that i can think of is Messerschnitt. 
which means "knife slice."

ng
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