• yetAnotherUser
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    4 hours ago

    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.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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      5 minutes ago

      And yet I always knew that it came from german and when I looked up the etymology that was confirmed correct. I honestly have no idea why people want to have a “conversation” like this

      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.