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TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoAnd 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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.