# Has anyone heard this tongue-in-cheek example of Germans stringing words together? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 1, 2014, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-heard-this-tongue-in-cheek-example-of-germans-stringing-words-together/697180 "2014-09-01T19:08:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-heard-this-tongue-in-cheek-example-of-germans-stringing-words-together/697180/41 "2014-09-03T18:18:40Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > I do not think he denied that it _is_ considered derogatory He made it very clear that _he_ doesn’t see it as derogatory. And that’s bullshit - the word is derogatory, whether one American thinks it should be or no. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-heard-this-tongue-in-cheek-example-of-germans-stringing-words-together/697180/42 "2014-09-03T18:44:39Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Himmelherrgottsakramentzefixhallelujascheissglumpatverreckts! Read the thread **Loach** linked to already and learn something. I did. (it’s one of those threads I love the Dope for) I already did, Buster. That’s why I answered as I did. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-heard-this-tongue-in-cheek-example-of-germans-stringing-words-together/697180/43 "2014-09-03T18:46:28Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > The First Amendment can kiss my non-American, partially-Khoi ass. > > It’s considered derogatory because it’s a mocking name given to marginalized, abused people by their colonizers (whose oh-so-more-evolved tongues were actually seemingly incapable of forming the complex click phonemes of Khoisan languages, so they petulantly just branded the entire set of cultures “Stutterers”, which is what “Hottentots” means) That’s got fuck-all to do with political correctness. Or do you also stand up for the right to freely say “kike” and “nigger” without social consequences? Don’t put words in my mouth or assume you know my hypothetical ulterior motives. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-heard-this-tongue-in-cheek-example-of-germans-stringing-words-together/697180/44 "2014-09-03T18:48:41Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > He made it very clear that _he_ doesn’t see it as derogatory. And that’s bullshit - the word is derogatory, whether one American thinks it should be or no. You sound like you believe you could convince people that two and two make six. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-heard-this-tongue-in-cheek-example-of-germans-stringing-words-together/697180/45 "2014-09-03T18:49:49Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > I already did, Buster. That’s why I answered as I did. You read the thread and still don’t see that it’s a derogative term? Then you really can’t be helped. Btw., is “Buster” derogative? I really don’t know (and to be true, don’t care really). ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-heard-this-tongue-in-cheek-example-of-germans-stringing-words-together/697180/46 "2014-09-03T18:58:04Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > The First Amendment can kiss my non-American, partially-Khoi ass. > […] If that’s what you think of the First Amendment, I’m glad you’re not in this country, whose people have fought and died for such freedoms. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-heard-this-tongue-in-cheek-example-of-germans-stringing-words-together/697180/47 "2014-09-03T19:04:16Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > If that’s what you think of the First Amendment, I’m glad you’re not in this country, whose people have fought and died for such freedoms. If the First Amendement stood for the right to denigrate and ridicule ethnic groups, I’d be glad not to be in your country. But I know that it doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-heard-this-tongue-in-cheek-example-of-germans-stringing-words-together/697180/48 "2014-09-03T19:23:09Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Derogatory? How so? **Moderator Instructions** Yes, the word “Hottentot” is generally considered derogatory. If you want to discuss this, open another thread in Great Debates. This discussion has become a hijack in this thread. This goes for everyone. Let’s drop the discussion of the word Hottentot here. Colibri General Questions Moderator [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-heard-this-tongue-in-cheek-example-of-germans-stringing-words-together/697180.md?page=2)