Comment on I know the Second World War arc was popular, but let's face it, the writers got lazy

• SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I deliberately chose that example for the shits and giggles.

  But now that I think of it, I guess I should explain some more. It doesn’t have to be a person to work that way.

  Usually it works like this: you have place names like: Wien (Vienna)
  Frankfurt
  Nürnberg (Nuremberg)
  Thüringen (Thuringia)
  Krakau (Krakow)

  by making them end in -er you can turn them into adjectives. (Keeping the capitalization, because they are names, although adjectives are usually lower-case):

  Frankfurter Würstchen
  Wiener Würstchen
  Nürnberger Würstchen
  Thüringer Würstchen
  Krakauer Wurst

  Those are all some kind of sausages (Wurst, pl. Würste, diminutive: Würstchen), by the way. And because they are well recognized and when the context is clearly about food, you can drop the noun entirely and the former adjective turns into a Noun, which can stand on its own. (But mostly distinguished by their article/genus)

  Frankfurter
  Wiener
  Nürnberger
  Thüringer
  Krakauer

  Though for some reason, “Pariser” is a slang word for condoms.

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