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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If you're German and old enough to remember Otto, then chances are, you'd thought of this classic bit when looking at this post:

Reinerhaltung der Deutschen Sprache โ€” Die Otto-Show IV (1976)