A question about alternative power supply for hp41 series

[walter b]

(02-27-2016 08:18 AM)wojtek Wrote:  

(02-27-2016 06:48 AM)Dieter Wrote:  ... rechargeable batteries are called "Akkumulator", or shorter and more common, "Akku". I assume this also applies to some other languages where it may be confusing that in English both disposable and rechargeable cells are simply called "battery".

Thank you, I can remember that I met this word (accu) probably in Karl Marx "Winnetou". I had not undestood then what was its meaning, but certainly it could mean "false friend".

Now that's going to become a real chaos.

• A 'false friend' in linguistics is called a term in a foreign language looking similar like a term in your native language but meaning something different. Some English examples for German readers: sensitive, handy, become, etc.
• 'Winnetou' was written by Karl May, a Saxonian fake traveller.
• Karl Marx was a different guy. Based on your name, I'd guess you wouldn't have got along with that confusion some 30 years ago.
• If Karl May ever wrote something looking like 'accu' he must have meant anything in a (for him) foreign language - since the German term for a rechargeable battery is 'Akkumulator' as mentioned by Dieter above. I admit having read a lot of his books when I was a kid though don't remember that piece of text.
  

Enjoy!

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