Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: alt.unix.geeks,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: DUC[KT] tape Date: 4 Jan 2026 05:42:12 GMT Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <10j61ja$3hv7b$1@dont-email.me> <7cadnTFwKKy978r0nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@giganews.com> <10jakoq$13ji1$5@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 9adsxmyHtwho4pYPhpyPwwMDHVBJLKDhtKikQyP41I6yzLtfuE Cancel-Lock: sha1:9hi1TL0JiWNzSBiqnb1ZNO52loo= sha256:0NejI+9dRYMfyK1TbO4mNP8Jo+svIKudoVnABXdCey4= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com alt.unix.geeks:150 comp.os.linux.misc:80451 On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 19:51:44 -0500, c186282 wrote: > Someone else suggested 'Germanic' ... but that may just be a random > association based on 'how it sounds'. Besides, the US founders did > not LIKE the Germans - they were mercenaries for the Redcoats, and > pretty nasty too. The first German language newspaper in the colonies was published by Ben Franklin. 'Germany' didn't exist until the 19th century. 'Dutch' was the blanket term, as in Pennsylvania Dutch or the entire colony of New Netherland so there were plenty of what would now be called Germans before the Hessian mercenaries. They had no reason to love the Brits. They weren't so much loyalists as thinking along the lines of the Gibson character in 'The Patriot'. Is it better to have one tyrant a thousand miles away or a thousand tyrants one mile away? Franklin's paper failed which did set the old pervert against Germans.