As this project appears to be fairly unknown in the fediverse still, I'd like to use this opportunity to advertise Flohmarkt. This Fediverse equivalent of Facebook Marketplace already has some instances up and running - see here: https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/wiki/flohmarkt-instances

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

...I don't know what point you're making. The word came from german, and the changing of the letter only goes to my point. The word was easily simplified to be used outside of German.

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You're in a thread complaining about a software using a German name for it's German meaning (Flohmarkt means flea market). Your example for a 'good German name' is an English word that has German origins. Don't you see how those are different?

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I think you're splitting hairs and it's not helpful. I have only ever known "Uber" as a German word and you saying it isn't one won't change my or others' experience of it as such.

Not only is the etymology on my side, search engines also easily find several articles saying the company Uber got their name from a German word.

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Uber is a loan word. Doesn't matter how your perceive it, that doesn't make it a more German. So is iceberg.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

doesn’t make it a more German. So is iceberg.

There is absolutely no way in which this even matters a slight bit. In-fucking-sufferable and entirely self unaware.

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 54 minutes ago

You're in a thread complaining about a software using a German name for it's German meaning. Your example for a 'good German name' is an English word that has German origins.