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roronoa79 wrote:
as long as we're including foreign languages:

German:
zart (tender, soft)
angenehm (comfortable, agreeable)
zerschlitzen (slash, shred)
kennenlernen (to get to know)
glücklicherweise (fortunately)
Karabiner achtundneunzig kurz (Kar98k rifle)
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If its a "carbine" then it cant be a "rifle".

A carbine is a long barreled gun that is smoothbore.
A rifle is a long barreled gun that has "rifling"... spiraling groves on the inside of the barrel.



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naturalplastic wrote:
roronoa79 wrote:
as long as we're including foreign languages:

German:
zart (tender, soft)
angenehm (comfortable, agreeable)
zerschlitzen (slash, shred)
kennenlernen (to get to know)
glücklicherweise (fortunately)
Karabiner achtundneunzig kurz (Kar98k rifle)
)


If its a "carbine" then it cant be a "rifle".

A carbine is a long barreled gun that is smoothbore.
A rifle is a long barreled gun that has "rifling"... spiraling groves on the inside of the barrel.

pretty sure the M1 carbine my dad had to shoot in the korean war was rifled. wasn't especially accurate despite that.



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