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: 5 Jan 2026 00:31:37 GMT Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <10j61ja$3hv7b$1@dont-email.me> <7cadnTFwKKy978r0nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@giganews.com> <10jakoq$13ji1$5@dont-email.me> <10jdhbh$1u3ls$6@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 2K58YC+NCHNTZYwBmALz9w8WefHVNreRiwao3NYlJIya+oGq7X Cancel-Lock: sha1:CvfnEtTNHIxQIIPh+nGEHPj80Jc= sha256:JdRygH1WCN1nBLqUuTFI1QkgpFZFDTwB1eubMUKM2/A= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com alt.unix.geeks:156 comp.os.linux.misc:80492 On Sun, 4 Jan 2026 11:02:09 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 04/01/2026 05:42, rbowman wrote: >> 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. >> > In anthropology 'Germanic' refers to a broad group of peoples who > inhabited NW Europe at or about the time of the late Bronze age onwards > > So Czechs, Dutch, Denmarks ,Swedes, swiss, flemish, Austrian as well as > the English and Germans are all 'germanic'. > > It was the Romans, who encountered the Germanii, who coined the term to > refer largely to 'anyone who doesn't speak Latin' Varus, give me back my legions!