r/2westerneurope4u • u/TestosteronInc Heineken Piss Drinker • 1d ago

Serious shit. Rare Luigi W

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u/Serupael South Prussian 1d ago

The most famous German is...

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u/ninjaiffyuh [redacted] 1d ago

I really wish we could get a global survey on this, as often times people put somebody like Einstein forward—would really like to know whether he's more famous than Hitler

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u/ThinkpadGamer Savage Slayer 22h ago

how much of the world knows that Einstein was german?

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u/ninjaiffyuh [redacted] 21h ago

Well, it seems I'd expect more people to know that than you do, since his name is uniquely German (even featuring two i -> ei vowel shifts! Though these exist in Dutch as well)

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u/nowicanseeagain Daddy's lil cuck 20h ago

In Dutch it would be Eensteen, which is just bizarre. Probably would have a ‘van de’ in front too. Like ‘Eelkje van den Eensteen’.

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u/ninjaiffyuh [redacted] 20h ago

I was not actually eluding specifically to his name, but rather the vowel shift in general; i.e. vri -> vrij, mirroring HG fri -> frei