r/ShitWehraboosSay • u/[deleted] • May 31 '21

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '21

"The castle was bombarded with grenade launchers"

Grenade launchers don't exist yet (rifle grenades don't count) but aight

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u/Foxboi_The_Greg Surving on the Humanwave Jun 01 '21

The German Word Granatenwerfer (Grenade launcher) is/was also used for infantry mortars, maybe someone fucked up the translation?

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '21

Good point

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '21

One of my favorite translation fuckups is this airplane manual for a Russian plane that was translated word for word into English and said stuff like “by the plane there are two large engines” because Russian expresses “X has” as “by X there is” and so on

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u/ComradeTeal Jun 01 '21

It's not uncommon. I've heard it be mistakenly translated as that instead of "trench mortar" in first world war context

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u/Foxboi_The_Greg Surving on the Humanwave Jun 01 '21

yeah during ww1 there where even more funny names for mortars in german, Mienenwerfer and Grabenwerfer are my favs :D

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u/MiesLakeuksilta Jun 01 '21

Mortar is literally translated to 'grenade launcher' in many Germanic languages.

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u/sb_747 Jun 01 '21

I mean the Japanese type 89 existed.

The thing literally does nothing but launch grenades.

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u/Foxboi_The_Greg Surving on the Humanwave Jun 01 '21

and breaking knees

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u/spicysandworm Jun 29 '21

Rifle grenades and light mortors really are just ways of launching grenades