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Sorry, Deutsch people (discuss.tchncs.de)

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Can we also talk about "Dutch"?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (4 children)

English-speakers used to use it to mean all non-Scandinavian Germanic peoples. When the Netherlanders became a distinctly separate group Britain had way more contact with them than with anyone else that the word used to cover, so we used it to refer to them specifically

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If I remember correctly, this is also one of the leading explanations why the Pennsylvania Dutch are called like that even though they speak German (or a German dialect).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Germans in America were a massively more influential subculture before WWI. Notably: not because of WWI. The heart of German-American culture was in New York City, where all the richest families took a boat for a holiday cruise, and one year it sank.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS_General_Slocum#1904_disaster

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