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Mark Zuckerberg, the Lawyer, Is Suing Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO (gizmodo.com)
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[–] 33 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Reminds me of how after WW2 people stopped calling their kids Adolf or even changed their name Adolf into something else. I mean, I'm not saying Zuckerberg is literally Hitler or something, but it sure is funnily similar.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Same thing happened after WW1 too btw. The strong anti-German sentiments across the US and Europe prompted multiple changes. William and Vilhelm became Bills or Ville; Müller became Miller; Schmidt became Smith.

    I had a lot of Swedish family who did this from around 1915-1930 and as you said, again after WW2.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What about John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt? Everyone seemed to share a name with him according to lore.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Zuckerberg literally means sugar hill/mountain in German.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    As an Austrian, this comment saying that 'Berg' translates to both hill and mountain explains a lot about what I've seen Germans refer to as Berg. To me it only means mountain.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Most of the time it does mean mountain. But I did hear it used for hill once, but that's it.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    A LOT of the ones I've seen Germans refer to as that are hills to me, so maybe it's normal for some. The way we use it, Berg has to go over the tree line, or at the very least be steep enough at the top to not have vegetation there.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, isn't hill hügel/hüble? Currently hiking in DE and just climbed one and it had the signs, too. Now the real question is - at what point is it considered a mountain?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Our definition: either high enough or steep enough to have no vegetation at the top. For some people, only the former definition counts. But from experience, the definition must be different in Germany. Maybe someone from there can chime in to share their definition!

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