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That's funny because "böse" in German means "evil" or "nasty". I don't know if anybody has that surname, but I would suspect not.
by theorique 13y ago
That's funny because "böse" in German means "evil" or "nasty". I don't know if anybody has that surname, but I would suspect not.
- claudius 13y agoWikipedia mentions a couple of ‘von Bose’, and I have to admit that I don’t see any particularly tight link between ‘Bose’ and ‘böse’ – the umlaut does have a special pronunciation, after all.
- theorique 13y agoGood point, I guess native German speakers are better at forming that distinction automatically, whereas umlaut-free language speakers probably have a harder time of it.
- interstitial 13y agoThat's funny because in the US, "bose" means crappy speakers with big marketing budget.