Comments by "Britta Kriep" (@brittakriep2938) on "Model 74 "Carpati": Cugir's Romanian Walther Clone" video.

  1. Forgotten: The grenade launcher lookalike item of blankpistol could be a fireworks launcher, which is common on blankpistols for german market. In Germany, don' t know situation outside, you have ordinary blanks, CS, OC / Pepper ( by law only to scare dangerous annimals), rarer extraloud blanks or ones with a very large bright flash of lightning.
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  2. A small sidenote: The th in Walther company name is not spoken the english way, but the german way, so only t. The th in german names is a relict from the time before 1873, when in german language every t was written as th.
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  3. For most time of History, german language was not regulatet, the people spoke and wrote in their local dialects, which often caused confusion in trade, science or diplomacy. Still today, when speaking in still existing dialects, we have problems to understand each other. So in 1873 german language was standardized/ regulated by german, austrian and swiss scientists into Standard German. This is the reason, why the allways only t spoken th disappeared in usual german language and remained only in names or words , orginating from other languages , for example Theater. But a german saying: There is no rule without an exeption! Thron ( throne) kept its th ( according to legend, by demand of Wilhelm ll).
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  4.  @germaniatv1870  : Yes, many english speakers are surprised when they hesr Old English/ Angish. But i also met an US lady, which didn't recocgnize Forke and lütt !
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