I called in at my local independent hardware shop today (yes, there is one left) and noticed a small selection of enamel paints on the shelf. About half of them were Humbrol, but the others were Revell and claimed to be ... wait for it .... "EMAIL PAINT" !
I've tried painting my emails, but the colour doesn't show at the other end. Anyone got some thinners for my screen?
Adrian
That's German for "enamel". Revell was bought by a German Co. some years ago.
Also French- I thought it was Heller (a French company) that had bought Revell. Brian
Email is also French. I have tins of Humbrol labelled "Peinture Email / Email-Farbe". It's also in 14 other languages, in addition to English.
Well, you live and learn! How confusing for them. I blame the Yanks for deliberately picking coining a new meaning for the word "email" just to confuse the foreigners.
There was me thinking it was some Chinese factory trusting their spell-checker a bit too much...
Adrian
Revell was a US firm, which became Revell-Monogram and also set up a German subsidiary, also called some variant of Revell. The subsidiary became bigger than the parent, and was spun off as a separate business with a management buy out in 2006.
Ta - I had wondered (but not enough to ask) what email paint was...
Email????? Oh, I see, you mean e-mail.
Hah!
ahhh, sarcasm. Well done.
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