Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace

• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Etymology From German über (“above”, preposition), which is also used as a prefix (über-); cognate with over. Entered English through Nietzsche’s use of the word Übermensch. Doublet of over, super and hyper.

  en.wiktionary.org/wiki/uber

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  • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Right, über is a word. “uber” is very much not. The points aren’t decoration or a pronunciation guide, they signify a different letter.

    It’s like saying that Spanish people call their country Espana.

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Are you really going to argue this? Those accent marks aren’t in all languages, which is mainly why they removed them. If you want to claim this isn’t the German word then you need to explain where it came from.

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      • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Removing the accent marks makes it such that the word isn’t German anymore, just German-inspired. It would have to be written “Ueber” instead.

        You know, like a Mr. Böing founding the company Boeing.

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  • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ‘uber’ is an English word with a German ethnology. ‘über’ is a German word. That’s like saying iceberg is German. u and ü are different letters. They are pronounced differently and change the meaning of words (e.g. ‘Schuppe’ means scale, ‘Schüppe’ means shovel)

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      …I don’t know what point you’re making. The word came from german, and the changing of the letter only goes to my point. The word was easily simplified to be used outside of German.

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      • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’re in a thread complaining about a software using a German name for it’s German meaning (Flohmarkt means flea market). Your example for a ‘good German name’ is an English word that has German origins. Don’t you see how those are different?

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• Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also, the founders are Canadian and American, not Germans

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber

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• DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Something, something über alles…

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  • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    über? which you’d spell ueber, if you can’t type ü

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