How is bamboo lumber made? (2016)

Re:How is bamboo lumber made? (2016) by jameshart on Friday October 22, 2021 @08:00AM (#28956186)

In the ‘small platform that sticks out’ sense the English equivalent would be ‘projection’ (interesting that that comes from a Latin root of ‘something that is thrown forward’, while the German word is more ‘something that jumps forward’), but in the context of the phrase the other meanings of that word would dominate.

There’s definitely a sense of ‘getting a head start’, ‘being at an advantage’ to Vorsprung that is hard to capture in a single English word.

Perhaps one way to translate it would be: Privilege through technology

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Re:How is bamboo lumber made? (2016) by mrlonglong on Saturday October 23, 2021 @10:10AM (#28968682)

My late father who was German used to say it meant progress through technology.

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Re:How is bamboo lumber made? (2016) by jameshart on Saturday October 23, 2021 @11:31AM (#28969435)

It’s a commonly offered translation but there’s a sense in which it doesn’t capture the same nuance.

If Audi wanted to say ‘progress through technology’, why isn’t the slogan ‘Bewegung durch Technik’? Bewegung very much has the sense of ‘progress’, but also has a double sense of ‘movement’, both in the sense of physical movement as well as a social movement. All of which are strong connotations the English word ‘progress’ captures. And would be a good slogan for a car company, too.

But that isn’t the word they chose, so progress is a slightly unsatisfactory translation.

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Re:How is bamboo lumber made? (2016) by mrlonglong on Sunday October 24, 2021 @06:52AM (#28976675)

It could also be 'Forward through technology'

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