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Message: <blockquote data-quote="brocknroller" data-source="post: 1616622" data-attributes="member: 665">Bob,That sounds reasonable, although would that mean they are mixing abbreviations for both English and German words?"B" in German optics designations means “Brille," the German word meaning suitable for spectacle wearersIf so, why repeat it twice? BD BRBD BP"D" usually means "Dach" or roofThe BD BP is not a roof. I find the double use of letters before and after the configuration overkill unlike most optics companies which only have letters after the name, e.g. Leica BA, Nikon SE, Pentax DCF, etc.I would like to know what all those letters mean, and I would prefer if Minox used names for their bins rather than letters, though I realize this is a German tradition.For example, Mercedes uses many letter designations (C, E, S, CLK, CLS, CL, SLK, SL, SLR, R ...). and combines them with numbers C230, E200, etc. The only word on their cars is "Kompressor" on the supercharged models. Of course, a company can get carried away with both letters and names, e.g., Promaster Infinity Elite ELX ED. There are other bins named Infinity, Elite, E, LX, and ED, although in the last term, it's a designation for the exotic glass type, so I can see that being necessary, but do they really need two names and three letters? The thing about German that I like is that many words sound like the English equivalent. Gras = grassgrün = greenblau = blueüber = overin = in or imthis = dieses  High Grade = Hoher Grad (as in Minox HG)drop = tropfen I = ichme = michto = zu that = das (also "the" in neuter gender) and = undcompressor = KompressorWhat I also like is that as with "Wojohowitz," you spells it like you says it, no silent letters like French. What I don't like about Deutsch is they stick the verb at the end, so while you are reading the sentence you have no idea what action is going on until you get to the end. I also don't like the way they make compound words by sticking many words togetherinalongstring, the longest beings: Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz So long that BF's software won't allow all those letters to be strung together so it separated the "t" and "r" near the end. (stick that in your Bablefish and watch what comes out! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Das Ende</blockquote>

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