SC - Substitution vs Accuracy

[David Gavin]

Grüß Gott Gwen-Cat!

The difference between "Austrian" and "German"   German is almost  as big as
between American and British English.
Whith brings a lot of confusiion as I use to look up things in an British
Dictionary 
and sometimes end up with very different meanings.

As to the reference to blue in the german name of  HCN, I would have to try
to find out where that realy comes from.

Two possibilities spring into my mind: either from the fact that you die of
asphyxiation adn turn blue, 
or from a test for cyanide whith turns blue but these are pure guesses and I
will have to consult my books.


If you realy paln to stay in Vienna tell me beforehand, so we can arrange
something.


Katharina


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	grasse at mscd.edu [SMTP:grasse at mscd.edu]
> Sent:	24 February 1999 16:36
> To:	sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
> Subject:	RE: SC - Summertime Cerulean Blue Sauce
> 
> Kind Katharina stated,
> 
> In Austria Blaubeere is Schwarzbeere and everybody would look at you with
> a
> strange little smile if you say Blaubeere.
> 
> I will admit to being used to those strange little smiles ;-)  Thank you 
> for enlightening me about the Austrian language preference.  It explains
> my 
> confusion.  
> And I thank you very much for the Chemistry lesson:  BTW chemical  
> Blausäure is HCN   prussic or hydrocyanic acid.  I was trying to think of 
> cyanide, but my brain would not supply the term.  Could it have something 
> to do with the type of blue (I freely admit I am no chemist, please 
> enlighten me!)
> 
> And I apologize for not adding a "Welcome to the list" to my original
> post. 
>  I very much enjoyed your introduction.  Makes me wish I could seriously 
> consider another trip to Germany this Fall, this time with an extended 
> visit to Vienna.  (I adore the New Years concerts... It was one of 2 
> programs that Oma and I would both be able to watch and comment on even 
> though she was in Berlin and I in Colorado.  I still watch them and
> imagine 
> what she might say.)
> 
> Gwen-Cat  reminiscing in
> Caerthe
> 
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