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>The en belongs at the end of the first word, not at the beginning of the second.
Uh-huh. I was only joking. Even when I made the connexion as a yoot, I never actually believed it.
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town of Schwarzenegg - I think you are getting closer: "egg" is a dialectal form of "eck(e)", meaning corner, so it could refer to a corner of an area, or a pointed mountain ("black peak").
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surname ... tautological If that means what I'm thinking it might, you are a bad, bad, boy.
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Nor really. Neger is standard German for negro.
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Neger is slightly more pejorative in German. At least these days.
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What's the PC term in German these days? Surely not Afrikan-Amerikanisch.
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>bad, bad boy
Well, MrsF, at least I was thoroughly punished by having what was, imo, a slightly amusing pun dissected and dessicated by apparently humourless linguists.
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a slightly amusing pun dissected and dessicated by apparently humourless linguists.
Oh, dear me. Was that a jab at yours truly? I die. [sniff]
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There, there, nuncle. It'd'a been funnier ifn it weren't so old.
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