Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds

Re:Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disas... by jacquesm on Sunday January 25, 2026 @11:33PM (#46761902)

Interesting. In dutch we use 'solderen' vs 'lassen', in German they use 'schweizen' and 'loten'.

English has a third term like that as well called 'brazing', then there is silver solder (a high temperature version of soldering), in dutch we'd call that 'hardsolderen', whereas what the English call brazing we call oxy-acetyleen lassen (which is more of a process name by virtue of naming the ingredients).

Soldadura autogeno and Soldadura en el arco (sp?) are what I think the modifiers used in Spanish to indicate brazing and (arc) welding.

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Re:Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disas... by myrion on Monday January 26, 2026 @01:10AM (#46762375)

Schweissen und löten. Has nothing to do with Switzerland (Schweiz) ;)

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Re:Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disas... by jacquesm on Monday January 26, 2026 @01:29AM (#46762473)

Ah yes, you are right! I was going by ear, rather than by the written version, in fact I can't recall seeing it written. German is a language that I will happily use but don't ask me to write a letter in it, you'll probably need exponential notation to represent the number of errors.

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Re:Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disas... by usr1106 on Monday January 26, 2026 @05:11PM (#46772297)

As a matter of fact schweissen is only correct spelling in Switzerland.

In Germany it would be schweißen.

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