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

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• mech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Fun fact: Hitler’s father was called Schicklgruber until he changed his name under strange circumstances at age 40.
  “Heil Schicklgruber” would have definitely been less catchy.

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• Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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• Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As a small child Sauron and Saruman was confusing.

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  • Yeller_king@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    As a middle school child, I could keep it straight, but my dad couldn’t.

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• raman_klogius@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Fun fact: Waluigi is a portmanteau of Japanese warui (bad) + Luigi

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  • GandalftheBlack@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I remember when I first realised this in Japanese class and I had to look it up to see if it was deliberate

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• rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sounds a lot like dentist

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• lauha@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  -er suffix is just a German surname convention meaning a person from that place, like new yorker in english

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  • Dicska@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wait, does it mean Himmler could mean something like ‘the one from heaven’?

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    • SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Nah. Not necessarily. The -er CAN be that, but it can be many other things.

      Hamburg is the city, Hamburger is someone from the city of Hamburg. Easy-peasy.

      But it’s also used for other things. A Fischer is not someone coming from Fisch, but someone who’s profession (or hobby) is fishing. And that’s also a common last name. So -er is more like a suffix to transform some $WORD to mean ‘person, that has some kind of relation to $WORD’.

      So it’s pretty common for last names to end that way, and it’s not always easily discernible what the relation to $WORD actually as, or sometimes not even known anymore what $WORD means. I wouldn’t have assigned any meaning to my own last name, for example, if I hadn’t researched it at some point (and it’s still unclear).

      I’m not a language expert, just native speaker, so this is not an exhaustive explanation of the concept. I just wanted to point out, that it’s more complicated.

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    • lauha@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sort of yes, but the origins of old surnames are always uncertain

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• MrSelfDestruct@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Himmler considered Hitler his sidekick.

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  • PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “Hitler acquires resources from the masses, while I engage in high-level paranormal summoning of ancient Aryan ghosts to revive GLORIOUS THULE” - Himmler, probably

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• winkly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  His pronouns are He-tler/Him-mler

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• Hubi@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What’s next, rivals called Vladimir and Volodymyr? Get real.

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  • mech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s a metaphor to show how closely the two countries are actually related.

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And a Donald each side of the Atlantic

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    • raman_klogius@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Or a Musk and a Tusk

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• FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Wait until you hear about Grimschitz

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