Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace

[trickdacy@lemmy.world]

...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]

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?

[anzo@programming.dev]

"Facebook" is an equally alienating name if you don't know English. But I agree, German is difficult!

[yetanotheruser@discuss.tchncs.de]

Removing the accent marks makes it such that the word isn't German anymore, just German-inspired. It would have to be written "Ueber" instead.

You know, like a Mr. Böing founding the company Boeing.