Right. But what would we call it in English? What are they trying to say that could not be more easily expressed than “remote annunciator?” It sounds so germanic to me, like preferring fernsprecher to telefon (perhaps not the best example of germanic compound word construction but you know what I mean?).
Yes, I know. I was trying to figure out what the placard on the wall was referring to and I decided that the “remote annunciator” was a similar circumlocution for a “far speaker.”
We would call this panel Fernmelder.
Right. But what would we call it in English? What are they trying to say that could not be more easily expressed than “remote annunciator?” It sounds so germanic to me, like preferring fernsprecher to telefon (perhaps not the best example of germanic compound word construction but you know what I mean?).
Fernsprecher is the old German word for telephone.
Yes, I know. I was trying to figure out what the placard on the wall was referring to and I decided that the “remote annunciator” was a similar circumlocution for a “far speaker.”