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Originally Posted by Guppie
okay: Rear view mirror: when you translate that litterally, it is "achteruit kijk spiegel" ,like Asha says. But nobody calls that mirror an "achteruit kijk spiegel", it's called a "binnenspiegel"  |
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We call it a "achteruitkijkspiegel", and I've looked in my dutch "woordenboek"(= book in which you can look for the meaning of difficult words) and in that the word "achteruitkijkspiegel" is mentioned! So it is a correct dutch word! But the word "Binnenspiegel" I can not find!!!
I personally never knew the word "binnenspiegel" but called it always "achteruitkijkspiegel". The first time I heard the first word was when I learned to drive a car. The teacher used that word to make a difference between the mirror inside the car ("binnenspiegel") and the mirror outside the car by the door ("buitenspiegel")
For the foreign readers who are really confused about this post: the dutch word is "achteruitkijkspiegel" but in "Brabo-land"where Guppie comes from they use "binnenspiegel"
The chorus from "Objects"in dutch:
Het was lang geleden en het was ver weg, oh god het lijkt zo erg ver.
Maar als het leven net een snelweg is, dan is je ziel net de auto
en objecten in de achteruitkijkspiegel kunnen dichterbij lijken dan ze zijn.