Monday, 9 December 2019

Schaub-Lorenz bei Techmoan

In a recent video from Techmoan I saw a familiar logo on the PCB of an STC Executel. You can see the logo in the video here. In the upper left corner you can see the logo and the number "8413". After some brain storming and searching I found out that this logo belongs to Standard Elektrik Lorenz AG (SEL) who sold their consumer market products under the brand name "Schaub-Lorenz".
In the video Techmoan explains that the telephone was made by Standard Telephones and Cables (STC). Now I wonder if it was actually produced by SEL. STC and SEL were both part of International Telephone & Telegraph (ITT). Bye the way, Techmoan showed a Schaub-Lorenz logo already before in a video about a Hi-Fi system. You can see it here.

Update:
I found on Binary Dinosaurs a picture of the package for the Excecutal that has a label from SEL.
The original version is here.
And here is the address on the package.
Standard Elektrik Lorenz AG
Hohenzollernstr. 16
Entrance Wittelsbacherstrasse
7530 Pforzheim
West Germany

Sunday, 1 December 2019

Why do you use "there is" with plural noun?

Ich bemerke immer wieder wenn ich YouTube-Videos schaue, daß ich mich daran störe wenn im Englischen "is" mit dem Plural verwendet wird. Irgendwie schlägt da der alte Oxford-English-Unterricht durch und machmal zeiht sich dann bei mir alles zusammen. Endlich habe ich eine einigermaßen befriedigende Antwort für dieses Phänomen gefunden. Hier bei Quora gibt Mark Jones eine gute Erklärung.
Zitat:
"I think there is one other reason you hear that in speech. The noun subject controls the verb for plurals and normally precedes it in the sentence. But the there is construction puts the verb before the noun subject, so what happens is the speaker has already spoken the verb before they realize it needs to be plural, and you get an incorrect agreement simply because their brain did not anticipate it in time.
There are no excuses like this in writing."
Danke