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TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 days agoAre 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.
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days 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.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
And yet I always knew that it came from german and when I looked up the etymology that was confirmed correct. I honestly have no idea why people want to have a “conversation” like this
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Inspired, yes. But uber is still not a German word.
Imagine if I founded a company called “Tougt” and claimed this is an English word. Not inspired by, is. Who needs the letter ‘h’ anyways?
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I fail to see how it matters that a word commonly known as “german” is not directly German but instead is one step removed.
They could have just as easily pulled another easy-to-grok word from German and slightly changed the spelling.
Those arguing about this technicality here are missing the point.