>>>>If you need to translate something, you can also try http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn
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>>>Yeah, but you can get some pretty funky translations...
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>>Hi Trey,
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>>My Russian colleague just asked me, what does 'tripod' mean? I don't know this word and I can not find an answer on the site. There is no English->Russian option, only Russian->English. She thinks, it's the same as 'altar', but she is not sure. Could you please help me? Sorry for unrelated question.
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>A tripod is a 3-legged stand - like photographers use for their cameras.
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>Not the same as altar. I'm curious, though, why she thinks this. (always interested in odd translations <g>)

She just read an English book and understood it this way from the context.
(ÖÅÒÔ×ÅÎÎÉË in Russian)

Thanks to everyone, who helped.