AVR-Chat

On Thursday 09 February 2006 01:35, Ottmar Klaas wrote:
> On 2/8/06, Thomas Keller <tkeller1@neb.rr.com> wrote:
> > Norbert Hoppe - FH Brandenburg wrote:
> > >>I like to control some beamers with an ATMega168 via RS232.
> > >>The beamer should be switched on when a video signal is available.
> > >>When the user forgot to switch off the video signal source
> > >>then the ATMega sould send a PowerOff-Signal to the beamer
> > >>(after 2 hours).

> > >>Maybe it is easy enough to start with Forth?

> >  "Beamers?"

Obviously teleportation devices. Don't you have one? :-)

> Since Norbert is from Germany I believe what he meant is a
> projector, like a Home Theather projector. Beamers are what they
> are called in Germany as far as I know, and since it sounds like
> an english word he probably assumed it is the same over here.

> There are a couple of those trick words in Germany that sound
> English, but are not used in the US. Another one that got me
> confused when I came to the US is "Handy", which to a German guy
> sounds English. It is the term used in Germany for a cell phone.

A "couple"? You have got to be joking. Whenever I take a holiday
there, not only am I amused(*) by their abuse of the English language,
they are amused by the fact that I know the real German words for
things ... which may be a mouthful compared to the malappropriated
English words ... but the German words are more often
self-explanatory.

(*) Despite the annoyance of having to triple-think when hearing a
German mispronounce an English word when embedding it in German
conversation.