... for "nearer settlement" – nearer, that is, to the town Segeberg. There's another village in the area called "Fehrenbötel" ("further settlement"). It is further from Segeberg.
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I'm late with this hilarious story, but the terminally stupid Green Youth are demanding this northern German village called Negernbötel be renamed, because it sounds like n*****-something. In fact it's Niedersäschsisch dialect ...https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/rassismusverdacht-gruene-jugend-will-negernboetel-umbenennen-17364226.html …
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The Green youth say they don't care about the derivation of the name and want it changed anyway. The local mayor complains that every few years some assholes demand a name change. The people who live there seem to be universally opposed.
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Of course because the Americans have laid an absolute tabu upon n*****, the related German word is also now absolutely forbidden and to be hidden behind asterisks as well.pic.twitter.com/8AOs3ZX2Aj
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wait until they visit Titisee
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Is 'Green Youth' an important group ? How old are these 'youth' ?
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they're the youth group of the Green party, so yes, potentially important, and they get no end of press.
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