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Actually, my first association - as a German - with master is the craftsman title "Meister".

• ekianjo 6y ago
  It is the only right association because it's the same word coming from "magister" in Latin and which traveled to become maestro in Italian, meister in German, maestre and then maitre in French and finally master in English.
  • dsun180 6y ago
    And then somewhere in 2019 it suddenly became a racist word against people of color in northern amerika.
    • ekianjo 6y ago
      Pretty sure next we are going to end up banning letters, because there's probably some letters that are intrinsically racist or something.
• mbeex 6y ago
  I'm in no way a native speaker - but even I recognize that in English 'master' has - and always had - many different meanings. One of them completely equal to the German 'Meister'. It is all about context. Question is, why certain groups emphasize - or better: impose deceivingly by altering him - the wrong context to a crystal-clear situation.
• mikaeluman 6y ago
  Same in Swedish: Mästare. Magister is also a word used in Sweden for teachers at schools.