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Staff Sling Glossary
Sep 4^th, 2008, 8:37am

I want to build a glossary of "Staff Sling" in various languages. We have a glossary here that contains non-English words for "sling" and often "slinger", but not "staff sling".

I have it in Latin and Irish Celtic, and those of you speak other languages fluently are being respectfully asked to submit their translation of the phrase (as well as any local historical info you may have on the use of the staff sling.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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funda_iucunda Descens Watt den een sin Uhl is den annern sin Nachtigal. Posts: 311 Gender:	Re: Staff Sling Glossary Reply #1 - Sep 4^th, 2008, 3:17pm In German it is "Stabschleuder" funda iucunda
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Re: Staff Sling Glossary
Reply #2 - Sep 4^th, 2008, 11:32pm

Babelfish is weird.I translated Stabschleuder from German to English and got staff centrifuge.Then I translated staff centrifuge from English to German and got Personalzentrifuge.Then I translated Personalzentrifuge from German to English and got personal centrifuge.Then I translated personal centrifuge from English to German and got Personal zentrifugiert.That last one appears to be the plural for personal centrifuge.Then I translated sling from English to German and got rieman.Then I translated riemen from German to English and got belt.

Are you dizzy yet?

You guessed it,I had to translate belt from English to German,and came up with gurt,which in turn translated directly back to belt.

I'm confused,

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Re: Staff Sling Glossary
Reply #3 - Sep 5^th, 2008, 3:13am

Babelfish take their name from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, wherein the babelfish is a convenient way for people from diverse places/times to converse.

Clearly the people who originated Babelfish have a sense of humor, because Babelfish also harks back to the Tower of Babel in Genesis (first book in the Bible), where God confused the speech of the people so they would leave off building their tower to Heaven.

Babelfish translations remind me strongly of the folks just after God confused everybody's speech...

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Re: Staff Sling Glossary
Reply #4 - Sep 5^th, 2008, 1:54pm

Babelfish, and similar results is why I'm asking native speakers of languages which have a term for "staff sling" and/or "staff slinger" to lend me their linguistic expertise.

Most of the automated translators do not have sufficient vocabulary or imagination for such specialist terminology. I've been through the same sort of thing with obscure musical and instrument making terminology. I'm surprised you didn't get 'shaft arm holder' as a translation.... Roll Eyes

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Yahweh Bless you in Yeshua Interfector Viris Spurii Matthew 11:25-30 Posts: 1700 Gender:	Re: Staff Sling Glossary Reply #5 - Sep 6^th, 2008, 2:09am Yes, languages and their roots, can be both riddlesome and eye opening: http://www.morgenster.org/signs.htm http://www.jdaniellowe.com/china.html Blessings, TS
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slingbadger Interfector Viris Spurii Don't Badger a Badger Posts: 2573 Gender:	Re: Staff Sling Glossary Reply #6 - Sep 8^th, 2008, 10:41am Anglo Saxon-- Staef -lidere Spanish Fundibulari Italian Cazafrutum Byzantine Petrobolo
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Chaotic Rage Descens Vous etes saoul! Posts: 465 Gender:	Re: Staff Sling Glossary Reply #7 - Sep 9^th, 2008, 4:35pm In Latin (I think?) it is called a Fustibalus.
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curious_aardvark Slinging.org Administrator Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 9041 Gender:	Re: Staff Sling Glossary Reply #8 - Sep 18^th, 2008, 12:12pm In english - it's a: staff sling ! Hmm, suppose that doesn't help much
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StaffSlinger Descens Slinging Rocks! Posts: 262	Re: Staff Sling Glossary Reply #9 - Sep 22^nd, 2008, 4:16pm Does that make your "Aussie Sling" a yonnie hoicker?
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Re: Staff Sling Glossary
Reply #10 - Sep 28^th, 2008, 7:41pm

Funny how slang expressions come in and out of fashion. It's been years since I heard a stone referred to as a "yonnie". My 15yo daughter didn't know what it meant. As far as "hoicking" for throwing, I'm not sure if that was ever popular here. I think it's more of an English expression. During my misspent youth we used to "chuck yonnies" at each other.

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David Morningstar Slinging.org Moderator Forum Moderator Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2886	Re: Staff Sling Glossary Reply #11 - Sep 29^th, 2008, 6:11am 'Hoick' is currently being used in a UK banking TV ad in the context of catching hold of people with good initial rates of interest that then change later. 'Hoy' is a north-east term for thowing, especially something big.
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Dave M Descens Slinging Rocks at seagulls Posts: 239 Gender:	Re: Staff Sling Glossary Reply #12 - Sep 30^th, 2008, 10:17am Intresting word Hoike as kids we used the word to hoike as to lift somethin up as in lets hoike it up different parts of the country same word different meanings
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peacefuljeffrey Interfector Viris Spurii Peace through superior slinging power! Posts: 2686 Gender:	Re: Staff Sling Glossary Reply #13 - Oct 3^rd, 2008, 1:12am I thought that "hoike" would be a phonetic representation of how an Aussie would say the word "hike"? I have heard them say the word "No" and it comes out like "Noyw."
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curious_aardvark Slinging.org Administrator Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 9041 Gender:	Re: Staff Sling Glossary Reply #14 - Oct 10^th, 2008, 7:13am nope hoike is definitely english And the best way to tell a kiwi from a an aussie is ton get them to say the world 'seven'. Kiwis always pronounce it 'siven' As for americans pronounciations of words - lol how long have you got ?
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