über vs. Uber - Hackdot

Re:über vs. Uber by TillE on Saturday December 06, 2014 @04:46PM (#8710337)

There are certain words (particularly Führer on its own) and phrases that modern Germans avoid due to Nazi associations, but Anschluss is absolutely not one of them. It's a common, general term.

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Re:über vs. Uber by pluma on Saturday December 06, 2014 @06:07PM (#8710543)

Nor is "ausrotten", at least not in its literal meaning. I'm not sure about how appropriate its use for the figurative meaning is, but its connotations are pretty violent regardless of its Nazi use.

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Re:über vs. Uber by schoen on Saturday December 06, 2014 @07:53PM (#8710812)

Thanks for the clarifications, I probably should have drawn clearer distinctions.

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