2) Search me. I mean, the context is clear, he's not been paid the salary he thinks he deserves and other people are, but all French words I can think of are completely different from anything near "traat", and I can't think of an old school German word, either.
Ha. HA! I got it. I was writing up the problem to ask my former professor for help as a last-ditch resort, and I found it: "Traitement" is the French word for a civil servant's salary. And Anderson's colon did mean it was an abbreviation, as I thought. (His 'i' looks absolutely nothing like an 'i' in any language, but I'm going with it.)
Good, because of the 4 words I was going to ask for help with, that was the one that was clearly written and occurred several times, and the only one I was embarrassed about. I'd like to keep this guy's respect!
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Re: Anderson to Fredersdorf, pages 2-4, Teuton-picking
Date: 2025-03-02 05:28 pm (UTC)Ha. HA! I got it. I was writing up the problem to ask my former professor for help as a last-ditch resort, and I found it: "Traitement" is the French word for a civil servant's salary. And Anderson's colon did mean it was an abbreviation, as I thought. (His 'i' looks absolutely nothing like an 'i' in any language, but I'm going with it.)
Good, because of the 4 words I was going to ask for help with, that was the one that was clearly written and occurred several times, and the only one I was embarrassed about. I'd like to keep this guy's respect!