[MPlayer-users] Movie plays on local laptop screen, but not on beamer

[Ivo]

On Sunday 16 September 2007 16:13, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 03:33:37PM +0100, Michael TD Nelson wrote:
> > I have only heard the word 'beamer' used to mean a projector once
> > before...
> >
> > I was on training at IBM in Germany. The German instructor and I had
> > just been chatting about his (English) Massey Ferguson tractor engines,
> > and my (German) Volkswagen cars, so when he mentioned his 'beamer', I
> > thought he was talking about a German car...
>
> Well, that is probably because "Beamer" is (one of) the German names for
> projector. Also in the category of German invented names that sound like
> English but are not: "Handy" for mobile phone.
> And most English-speaking Germans are aware that those are not English
> words, but they still can slip in without noticing because the sound so
> English ;-).

In The Netherlands, we call it a beamer too.

Wikipedia says:

Beamer is slang for:

Video projector, a pseudo-anglicism in a number of languages including 
German and Dutch.

And there's also:

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamer

which redirects to Videoprojector :) (which is one word in Dutch)

--Ivo