On (19 Jun 06) Malte Schmidt wrote to George Pope...
 MS> MS>> as)... is there a word for Achtelfinale in english? Babylon
 MS> Translator
 MS> MS>> suggest "round before the quarter-finals",
thank you very much.
 MS>
 MS> GP> Nah, we don't usually consider anything before the quarter finals
 MS> to be
 MS> GP> significant or worthy of its own term!
 MS>
 MS> But you hopefully use something shorter than that. In you playoffs of
 MS>
 MS> hockey you simply say "1st round", yes? ah, no.. you
probably seperate
 MS> the
 MS> two Conferences, so it is Western/Eastern Conference quarter finals?
 MS> :)

There is that -- we simplify it so we don't need any sesquipedalian
words!

Because I care,
|<+]::-)  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))


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