2009/6/5 <[email protected]>:
> Hi!
>> Burg: a fortress or a walled town
>> (according to my 1990 vintage Chambers English Dictionary).
>>
>> So I'd say the English for burg is burg, and yes this is pointless.
>
> Actually, this is a false friend. A Burg is a considerably smaller
> fortification than a fortress (Festung in German) and in modern language it
> is never used for a walled town.
>
> This shows that you have been mislead by the use of German terms and are
> rather illustrating my point.
No, you are again proofing that you are not familiar with the meaning
of "burg" not even in German. A walled town called burg in English
would be a Stadtburg (burgartig befestigte Stadt) in German, and is
perfectly corresponding (though not all walled towns are burgs, again
depends on typology/construction date).
Btw: the difference between "Festung" and "Burg" in German is the time
of construction (and therefore typology, technique, etc.). In the
middleages they were synonimous ("Veste").
Martin
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