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Re:Santa Hat on VScode Insiders by Thorrez on Friday December 20, 2019 @06:19AM (#21843280)
It's not "mistaken to mean something in a different language". The name literally originated as religious reference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_(given_name)

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Re:Santa Hat on VScode Insiders by matzab on Friday December 20, 2019 @06:25AM (#21843304)
You're just mistaking the word's origin for its meaning. That's just not how any of this works.
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Re:Santa Hat on VScode Insiders by Thorrez on Friday December 20, 2019 @06:56AM (#21843467)
In both languages (English and German) the name has the same origin I believe, and the same current meaning of a name that doesn't imply the person is of the Christian religion. I think it's wrong to say that there's a language confusion of being too religious, since the name has the same religiosity in both languages.
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Re:Santa Hat on VScode Insiders by ominous on Friday December 20, 2019 @06:44AM (#21843399)
Seems to me the same as was done by Christian: mistaking the Santa hat of 2019 with whatever happened before.
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