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Re: [Chicken-users] More thoughts on Ersatz
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John Cowan |
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Re: [Chicken-users] More thoughts on Ersatz |
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Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:50:24 -0400 |
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Ivan Raikov scripsit:
> 7) Name: 'tori' is a bit too generic, I think. Presumably German is the
> native language of Chicken, so I chose what I think expresses the nature of
> templates, yet is somewhat self-deprecating, as ersatz usually means 'poor
> substitute' in English and my native Bulgarian.
I think we picked up those semantics in World War I and II, when the
Central/Axis Powers were cut off from supplies of everything from coffee
to rubber and had to use very poor substitutes indeed.
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Re: [Chicken-users] More thoughts on Ersatz, Ivan Raikov, 2013/03/13