I'm pretty sure it means Swiss Army... Kinda sure, actually.
Quote from: BleaKrytE on July 25, 2017, 11:21:35 PMI'm pretty sure it means Swiss Army... Kinda sure, actually. "Suisse" obviously means "Swiss". So how the heck does "Officier " translate to "Army"?
Quote from: GoatDragon on July 25, 2017, 11:32:06 PMQuote from: BleaKrytE on July 25, 2017, 11:21:35 PMI'm pretty sure it means Swiss Army... Kinda sure, actually. "Suisse" obviously means "Swiss". So how the heck does "Officier " translate to "Army"? Made my day 🤣🤣🤣
Officier Suisse means Swiss Officer and is on the 91mm and 85mm ones as they are based on the old Officer's knife (corkscrew and such)Alox and 111mm are based on the Soldier's knife so they don't have it (they are bigger and beefier).
The translations are correct, but “Offizier” in German does mean “Officer” in English, it's just magic of compounds. “Offiziersmesser” in German is the term for army Knives, as in (Swiss) army knives, while with a space it becomes a knife owned by an officer (albeit missing an apostrophe for correct German syntax, but Google Translate tries to be helpful). So it's no change in the meaning of the word “Offizier”, just the meaning of the compound as a whole. For an English example, consider “skinhead”, which you could translate to another language as for instance “right wing extremist”, but “skin” does not mean “right wing” and “head” certainly does not mean “extremist”.