Re: DUC[KT] tape

From	rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups	alt.unix.geeks, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: DUC[KT] tape
Date	2026-01-04 05:42 +0000
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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.

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