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>Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 09:00:24 -0500
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>From: Karl Fisher <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #5340 A Language Question
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Dear Violeta,
The barge board is part of a Formula 1 car. Ferrari had a car disqualified
for exceeding the specification for the barge board (also know as a turning
vane or deflector panel). Have a look a these sites:
http://ww2.formula1.com/news/headlines99/malaysia/story849__19-10-99.html
http://f1rumors.net/articles/cdoherty/4.html
I found this by searching for "barge board" and "barge board controversy"
(as a phrase) at http://www.go2net.com . The "Metacrawler" search engine
uses the top matches from the major search engines and can usually find
anything.
Best,
Karl
>--- Forwarded Message from "Violeta" <[log in to unmask]> ---
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>>From: "Violeta" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: "Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
>>" <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: Re: LLTI Digest - 15 Nov 1999 to 16 Nov 1999 (#1999-121)
>>Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 08:03:46 +0200
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>Hi everybody,
>
>I would like to ask you for help.
>
>Some of my students asked me to help them with the
>vocabulary of a text they had found on the Internet. It is about
>Formula 1 - in this sport I am a layman, I confess. I found some phrases
>and
>words difficult to understand. I think you might spend some time on helping
>me even at a distance.
>The Formula 1 site is at
>http://ww5.formula1.com/news/headlins99/japan/story889_Japan_26-10-99..html
>The first one is:
>"Everyone had an opinion on the BARGE BOARD CONTROVERSY, an affair which
>ensured that Formula1 stayed firmly in the global imagination as a panel of
>judges in Paris decided to keep the 1999 title alive to Suzuka."
>
>Could you try to cut this sentence into 2 or 3 sentences, or paraphrase it
>for me so that I could understand the meaning of the bold face words? I
>know what a barge is, and I know what a barge board is - "a board, often
>ornate, attached along the barge couples of a gabled roof, as in Gothic
>architecture". I have two guesses: a BARGE BOARD CONTROVERSY means a keen
>controversy (keen debate and gabled roof ?); a BARGE BOARD CONTROVERSY
>means a piece of information displayed on the information board (a barge
>board looks beautiful, as it is ornate and it resembles a front page of a
>newspaper, a place where the main headlines are ?).
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Violeta Tsoneva, Ph. D.
>EFL Teacher
>German Language High School
>26 Pozitano St
>Sofia 1000, Bulgaria
>e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Karl W. Fisher
Director, Language Laboratory
The University of the South
Sewanee, TN 37383
Lab: (931) 598-1468
Fax: (931) 598-1145
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