[Swansea Hackspace] Difficulty with German word

[jon lilley]

Have you taken a look at:
http://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/papilio-machaon-l/  ?

Some English descriptions, as well as your German one. :)
On 11 Apr 2016 4:32 p.m., "Neil Jones" <neil at aurinia.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Herbert,
>
> I am looking at buying an old book from 1936 on line. It is written in
> German and my German isn't actually good enough to be truthful,
> but I am looking at trying to learn it properly at some point which in 2
> years of studying it in school I got nowhere near,
> I am working on a long term project to try to build a large website
> documenting all the world's butterflies using old texts as a source with
> some AI stuff I hope will work to help in various ways. To get started I
> am trying some of the lower hanging fruit. and this book is a comprehensive
> taxonomic work on a significant species.
> I have located a copy on line at  reasonable price but I am having a
> little difficulty with the words in the description.
> I wonder if you can help
>
> Buch im altersbedingt guten Zustand, Bucheinband ein wenig eingerissen,
> Seiten und Bucheinband altersbedingt nachgedunkelt, Seiten leicht anrissig
>
> I translate this as Book in good condition relative to its age, Book cover
> a little torn. Pages and book cover darkened with age. Pages easily
> SOMETHING.
>
> The something is the problem. I can't find a decent translation for
> "anrissig". I have been able to find "anriss" as crack which suggests that
> it is easly cracked or something, but I am always cautious in extrapolating
> with words given that language can be so idiomatic. I always think of
> awsome and awful which originally had similar meanings but drifted apart.
>
> If I do get it I might actually get down to learnning a bit more German
> which is an aim of mine.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Neil
>
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