User's manual vs. User manual

[Tim Pann]

Gemeinschaftsgeful is a beautiful word. Even more off topic, my last name, Pann, as best I can estimate, is from Panne, which means mechanical breakdown.

Why "mechanical breakdown" would be such a short word in German rather than a long concatenation of strung-together words I don't know, but it is what it is and I am apparently it.

Tim Mechanical Breakdown
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From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] on behalf of Steve Rickaby [srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 9:59 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: User's manual vs. User manual

>That's some of the most impressive pseudogerman I've ever seen. Kudos! :D

We are getting truly off topic, but my favorite German compound is 'Gemeinschaftsgefül' (if I have spelled it correctly). It's a real word, taken from Adlerian psychology, and is rather lovely. It means, as best I know, 'a spontaneous feeling of unity with the whole of Mankind'.

Which I get a bit of from this group.

To make this e-mail a bit more on-topic, in the UK at least I have never come across 'User's Manual', only 'User Manual' or 'User Guide'.

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Steve
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