Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace

• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think you’re splitting hairs and it’s not helpful. I have only ever known “Uber” as a German word and you saying it isn’t one won’t change my or others’ experience of it as such.

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  • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Uber is a loan word. Doesn’t matter how your perceive it, that doesn’t make it a more German. So is iceberg.

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      doesn’t make it a more German. So is iceberg.

      There is absolutely no way in which this even matters a slight bit.

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      • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You’re in a thread complaining about a software using a German name for it’s German meaning. Your example for a ‘good German name’ is an English word that has German origins.

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