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"schvitzing"? There are certain stylistic choices a writer can make that labels him as an instant idiot in my world. I chose not to read that link in full due

• darklajid 13y ago
  This is the lowest rated comment I ever got (in terms of downvoting). For future visitors of this place, my expanded rationale: "schvitzing" automagically reads like "schwitzen" (to sweat) to this German reader. Looking that word up on the net ([1], leads to [2]) results in either German or Yiddish origins and confirms that it is just that, just .. referenced in a weird way. Not knowing the author and his background I assume that this was chosen for effect - and I despise choices like that. I'm among the least patriotic people you'll meet, but if you're going to make jokes about $SomeEvilScenario and make it sound more .. legit, funny, interesting, believable by adding some sort-of-German-word-or-phrase you are not a writer, you're a fool, an idiot in my world. That author chose, according to what I can see, a 'German' (or Yiddish, doesn't change my opinion really) phrase to describe something scary. That's low. I wasn't a fan of that source before this article, but I won't visit it ever after. 1: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/schvitzing https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/schvitzing 2: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shvitz#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shvitz#English