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Such a dumb complaint. “Werwolf” is the regular German word for “werewolf” which occurs in every single novel that writes about werewolves (including the German
by sltkr 2y ago
Such a dumb complaint. “Werwolf” is the regular German word for “werewolf” which occurs in every single novel that writes about werewolves (including the German translation of Stephanie Meyer's popular werewolves-and-vampires stories), and going by Levenshtein distance, “WerWolv” as a username is no closer to the German “Werwolf” than English “Werewolf” is.
You know the Nazis had plans called blue, red, yellow, pine tree, Icarus, heron, sea lion, northern lights, typhoon, Isabella, Hercules, etc? Should all those words now be stricken from the German lexicon because stupid Americans aren't able to consider that a German-speaker would use a common German word appropriately?
- TillE 2y agoThere are certain German words which are now often avoided because of Nazi associations (eg, Führer), but yeah Werwolf isn't really one of them.
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- p_l 2y agoAs someone who for few years regularly was in position where the correct german term for role I performed included the word Führer... Maybe they are avoided outside of german language, and maybe some of them in more colloquial german, but official/formal terminology? That's the thing with general terms.