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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... 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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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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Replying to @Sk3lling
is preferred over N*ger, as the direct equivalent of English "black"
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no, ‘blacks’, schwarzen, is mostly fine
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