Meters or Yards??

AS · 01-05-07, 10:38 PM

@ Sailor Steve: ...and now it´s a very embarrassing moment for me - I still thought that it meant how deep they were

Well, strangely enough the German title of Jules Verne´s novel is "20.000 Meilen (miles) unter dem Meer (under the sea) which is highly ambigious. I thought Jules Verne believed one could go that deep since he couldn´t have known that the deepest part of the sea is "only" about 14 km (which is less than 8 miles approx.)

You live, you learn....

01-05-07, 10:38 PM	#1
AS 中国水兵 Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Germany Posts: 275 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 0	@ Sailor Steve: ...and now it´s a very embarrassing moment for me - I still thought that it meant how deep they were Well, strangely enough the German title of Jules Verne´s novel is "20.000 Meilen (miles) unter dem Meer (under the sea) which is highly ambigious. I thought Jules Verne believed one could go that deep since he couldn´t have known that the deepest part of the sea is "only" about 14 km (which is less than 8 miles approx.) You live, you learn.... __________________ Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. (Oscar Wilde)