Nov 10, 2009 20:48
14 yrs ago
Russian term
слединение
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military organization
This is the beginning of the text of a Warsaw Pact telegram to the Polish General Staff after the WP invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968:
Слединения и части второй армии Войска Польского...с честью выполнили задачу... (to make Czechoslovakia safe for Communism for another 21 years)
I can only find two hits on this word in Google.ru. (so maybe it's a valid word?)
Объединения is wrong for this context since an army IS an объединение. I presume it should be Соединения but that's a multi-letter garble in otherwise clean text.
Can this word nevertheless be valid?
Слединения и части второй армии Войска Польского...с честью выполнили задачу... (to make Czechoslovakia safe for Communism for another 21 years)
I can only find two hits on this word in Google.ru. (so maybe it's a valid word?)
Объединения is wrong for this context since an army IS an объединение. I presume it should be Соединения but that's a multi-letter garble in otherwise clean text.
Can this word nevertheless be valid?
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 +2 | operational formations |
Roman Karabaev
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| 4 | union |
Vasu Valluri
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Proposed translations
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Roman Karabaev
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operational formations
Соединения и части
A typo.
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Note added at 21 mins (2009-11-10 21:09:41 GMT)
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I think a repetitive typo might result from:
1) AutoCorrect command in MS Word (with invalid input string)
2) OCR recognition mistakes (Adobe Acrobat)
3) A typo in any translation memory that might have been used (if the strings are similar).
Anyway, there is definitely no such term as "слединение".
Any matches that Google might find are typos - the keys "О" and "Л" are very close on the keyboard.
A typo.
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Note added at 21 mins (2009-11-10 21:09:41 GMT)
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I think a repetitive typo might result from:
1) AutoCorrect command in MS Word (with invalid input string)
2) OCR recognition mistakes (Adobe Acrobat)
3) A typo in any translation memory that might have been used (if the strings are similar).
Anyway, there is definitely no such term as "слединение".
Any matches that Google might find are typos - the keys "О" and "Л" are very close on the keyboard.
Peer comment(s):
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Angela Greenfield
: not sure about "operational", though
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Thanks. Multitran gives 4 variants for this phrase - so I cannot be sure, too.
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James McVay
: Definitely "соединение." I couldn't begin to count how many times I've seen "соединения и части" paired like that. As to the translation . . . there's no direct English equivalent. It's all relative.
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Thank you.
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3 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks for confirming this, Roman.
BTW, the standard Defense Department translation for соединение is formation and for объединение it's "large formation""
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Russian term (edited):
соединение
union
please refer to discussion
Discussion
unions and parts of the second Polish Army.. have fulfilled the task with honour.