Comment on THE TANK by Transformers-Mosaic
Well done (though the tank Bludgeon transforms into didn't exist 1942).
What does disabuse someone of [a] notion mean?
What does disabuse someone of [a] notion mean?
Inform them that they're mistaken.
Thanks!
You're absolutely right about the tank. He really should be a Soviet T-34 or perhaps a Panzer III. I should have redesigned him, but I guess I kept him a Type 90 for familiarity, even if it's incongruous.
The narrator is saying that he doesn't want to disabuse Erik's notion of them being near the coast - if they were near the coast, they would find it easier to orientate themselves, and navigate their way home despite losing the dogs; however, the narrator believes they are lost inland, but doesn't want to rob Erik of this one strand of hope he's clinging to.
The narrator is saying that he doesn't want to disabuse Erik's notion of them being near the coast - if they were near the coast, they would find it easier to orientate themselves, and navigate their way home despite losing the dogs; however, the narrator believes they are lost inland, but doesn't want to rob Erik of this one strand of hope he's clinging to.
It was the word disabuse that I was not familiar with - not being a native speaker of English, I've never read it before, and it looked like it meant 'mis-mis-use', i.e. 'not abuse'. But no.
Where are the guys from, anyway? The names (Klaus, Erik) plus the word logbog make it seem reasonable that they're Swedes or Norwegians.
Where are the guys from, anyway? The names (Klaus, Erik) plus the word logbog make it seem reasonable that they're Swedes or Norwegians.
Close - I loosely based them on the Danish Sirius Sledge Patrol who began running reconnaissance missions in Greenland from 1941.