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Hot dogs are bastardized from three separate Germanic names. Frankfurt sausages sounded a bit formal, so you got "hot dachshunds," except Americans could neither spell nor pronounce the name of that breed, so you get "hot dogs." If you asked what a hot dog was you'd probably be told it's a wiener on a bun, where the English word "wiener" is a loanword from the German conjugation of "from Vienna." And we've come full circle by routinely referring to dachshunds as wiener dogs.
The less-fun tangent about the prominence of German food in American culture is that New York was famed for its wealthy German-American families until all their wives and children were on a boat that sank. I am not joking.
Quick note, just to be a pedantic arsehole: conjugation is specific to verbs. The general term is declension, which includes conjugation, but more broadly refers to the changing of a word depending on its semantical context
You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.
The kind of correct you can't be mad at.
This is incorrect btw. Conjugation is not a special form of declension. Declension does not apply to verbs. The general term for both is morphology.
What a disaster, fuck
"capitalism makes the best product for the lowest cost because of the invisible hand of the child drowning monster"
On the plus side they didn't have to live to see their home country get fucked twice in a row.
I know what you're saying, but their home country was America.
That's what they're saying I think? First they saw Germany, then they would've seen America? Though idk if those people were immigrants or the second generation of immigrants
Well, we have Wiener Würstchen made from pork and beef, and we have Frankfurter Würstchen which are made from pork and are smoked :)
I always found it funny that it is called "dachshund" in English. In German it is called "Dackel" and "dachshund" would be translated as "badger dog". I don't think that a badger is really meant here, but that the language has just developed a bit strangely (like with the word ampersand).
We call them that because they were meant to drive badgers from dens. It's why they are so inclined to be aggressive little shits when not properly trained
Thanks for the explanation, I didn't know that and wikipedia does not explain that in their etymology section.
Always happy to help, it's not often that my families multiple generations of dog breeding and training actually provides relevant information to internet conversations
They don't look like badgers - they hunt badgers. They were bred specifically to hunt in burrows.