• Adderbox76
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    1 month ago

    That, good sir, is a Swiss Army Knife.

    This is a pocket knife.

    This is a combat knife.

    and this is a hunting knife.

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      1 month ago

      Outside of the US or at least outside of English, a Swiss Army Knife is known as a pocket knife, and they’re not always Swiss-made either. As you can see from Victorinox’s own website (and they are the official manufacturer of what Americans call the Swiss Army Knife - which, indeed, got famous because it was used by the Swiss army), they call it a Taschenmesser, where Tasche translates to pocket and… I think you can guess what Messer translates to.