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Re:Pangea Aerospace successfully hot fire tests the first Me... by 8bitsrule on Friday November 19, 2021 @09:30AM (#29277516)
>The aerospike engine has been the saint grail for rocket scientists since its was first theorized in the 50’s.

'saint grail' ...

Re:Pangea Aerospace successfully hot fire tests the first Me... by 8bitsrule on Friday November 19, 2021 @10:25AM (#29278105)
Turns out that was actually a thing:

'the line of messianic descent was defined by the French word Sangréal.... In English translation, the definition, Sangréal, became "San Gréal", as in "San" Francisco. When written more fully it was written "Saint Grail", "Saint", of course, relating to "Holy"; and by a natural linguistic process came the more romantically familiar name, "Holy Grail".'

Re:Pangea Aerospace successfully hot fire tests the first Me... by tsimionescu on Friday November 19, 2021 @12:19PM (#29279642)
That's just bad etymology. The word/expression Saint Graal in Old French. Saint was translated into English directly as Holy, while Graal was adopted as is morphing into grail. It seems the etymology for graal is likely ultimately Ancient Greek krater, a type of wine bowl.

The 'sang real' (royal bloodline) nonsense was a much later invention (15th century).

Re:Pangea Aerospace successfully hot fire tests the first Me... by dylan604 on Friday November 19, 2021 @10:36AM (#29278228)
Nice to see Dan Brown in our midst.
Re:Pangea Aerospace successfully hot fire tests the first Me... by taneq on Friday November 19, 2021 @12:07PM (#29279469)
And here was me thinking Wheel of Time and their "sa'angreals".
Re:Pangea Aerospace successfully hot fire tests the first Me... by ryzvonusef on Friday November 19, 2021 @01:13PM (#29280359)
episodes are out!
Re:Pangea Aerospace successfully hot fire tests the first Me... by kleton on Friday November 19, 2021 @09:39AM (#29277616)
Santo Grial in Spanish, I suspect neural machine translate would have translated their press release into more idiomatic English.
Re:Pangea Aerospace successfully hot fire tests the first Me... by roveo on Friday November 19, 2021 @10:32AM (#29278191)
In many languages "saint" and "holy" are the same word.
Re:Pangea Aerospace successfully hot fire tests the first Me... by lcrz on Friday November 19, 2021 @09:58AM (#29277814)
The automated translation is pretty noticeable.