11 June 2006

Not about football

Any German speakers out there who can help me out? Here's a van I saw recently with words on both sides. Letters are missing from both sides, too. I'm incredibly curious to find out what it is trying to spell out.





And here's a kinda composite of where those letters would occur:



Any ideas, mein lieblings? Bitte! Ich braucht dein hilfen!

9 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Das ist echt schwer!!! Maybe the first word is "Stanzung" which is the Substantiv of "stanzen" (blanking, pressing, punching). It would make sense as an advertisement for a company for "Stanzen", "Prägen" usw.
But I don't know, what to do with that "A" at the end...
Let me think...

franzi.

12 June, 2006 15:11  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

... and the 3. word could be "Applikationsarbeiten", which means "applications". There not so many words ending with "-kation" (Applikation, Fraktion, Indikation, Publikation ... know some more???!!!)
"Applikationsarbeiten" would perfectly fit to "StanzungsARBEITEN" (the "A"!).

12 June, 2006 16:10  
Anonymous Cy- said...

Or "Stanzungsamt" ("amt" is for office)
Sorry not to be able to help you further...

PS: ich brauche eure Hilfe

13 June, 2006 08:33  
Anonymous Elisabeth said...

I bet it is your own car where you randomly put letters on the windows just to bend our minds. Admit it.

13 June, 2006 11:08  
Blogger Craig said...

I'm glad it's not just me being thick in not being able to work out what words are on there. Thanks for you help, leute.

13 June, 2006 16:41  
Blogger b7b said...

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13 June, 2006 19:01  
Blogger b7b said...

Sorry for my late comment here Craig; but I think I've got the answer:

It isn't German after all; it's southern Ungsa-Tungs dialect, the message, correctly spelled on the car of the U-T soccer team, roughly reads:

This is the official Ungsa Tungs van. Don't scratch it.

13 June, 2006 19:02  
Blogger Craig said...

Is that true or are you messing with my head?

13 June, 2006 19:26  
Blogger b7b said...

It's not true craig, Ungsa Tungs don't play soccer. They're more into chess.
Sorry for messing with your head.

Could have been true though?!

14 June, 2006 09:27  

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