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I don\'t think you meant to say that

I attach a genuine extract from a recently received press release. It seems to egained something in translation from the Finnish.

Yamarin introduces its first new model for season 2007 at Helsinki Boat Show. The Yamarin 56 Center Console is a leisure boat for hard use. The new boat has been tailored to meet the needs of fishing and cottaging enthusiasts - it features a reinforced bottom and a steel keel made of acid resistant steel.

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It's not just foreigners. I had to warn SWMBO that you couldn't abbreviate "We've been working on the cottage" to We've been cottaging". She was amazed when I explained what she had said.
 
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I think cottaging is just a really bad translation of this sort of thing which is massively popular in Scandinavia (the log cabin by the lake/sea/river)

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Finland has around 60,000 lakes and some 18,000 islands, so a boat is quite important to this domestic (cottage /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif) industry.
 
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JJ - I trust that from your highly respected, elevated position you will be advising the manufacturer as to the, er, normal use of the descriptive term cottaging?

cc us all in the letter and response please
 
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I most humbly apologise the skills of noble english languge on behalf of all finnish boating people. I'm so very sorry.
 
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Dear Helina,

I really didn't mean to insult the splendid people of Finland. It was just a cheap shot and I apologise for any offence caused.

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My wife & I had not heard of this term before, and I don't think we lead that much of a sheltered life, so I am sure that this definition is know mainly to those involved.
 
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Gulp!
 
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Got it spot on. I have something similar but the far shore is about 3 times further away. Still fascinates me when it all freezes over in the winter so you can drive the car across.

Pity some things are just lost in the translation...
 
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I am sure that this definition is know mainly to those involved.

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Gulp!

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Can you stop gulping, Simon ..


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