Re:Psyop Mistakes?
by chris-at on Monday January 19, 2015 @07:20AM
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"However, the operation failed when the rubber stamp on those cards intended for the city of Hamburg misspelled Hansastadt as Hanfastadt. Apparently, German is difficult language."
Re:Psyop Mistakes?
by heeen on Monday January 19, 2015 @07:59AM
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The mistake was probably made by confusing one of the two variants of 's' that were used back then with a 'f':
The one that looks like an f was only used at the beginning of words, also within compound nouns.
In this example, one would read as "guardroom", the other as "wax tube"
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Wachstube.svg
Funnily enough, it's actually "Hansestadt".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg