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[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It will never stop being weird to me that you anglos just translate his first name to Frederick / Fred instead of going with Friedrich / Fritz, it's as if i was calling Biden and Stalin "Jupp" because that's the traditional short form for Joseph in the Rhineland.

Wait i've actually called Stalin Jupp in the past nvm

Edit: RIP my inbox lol

these replies are actually really informative

[–] ComradeRat@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Engels translated his own name as Fred actually

We have evidence of this as early as the 1838-9 letters to his sister Marie (Engels was in the habit of using random bits of English even in his earliest letters).

And it becomes more prominent ofc once he moves to England and lives there. Marx himself used 'Fred' to refer to Engels often, including in this Dec. 6 1868 letter

[–] emelia@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What is this letter? This reads really poorly translated

[–] ComradeRat@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Afaik this is the transcription of the original letter rather than a translation (it can be found in MEWBand32). I'm not a German speaker, but my guess would be that any weirdness is a combination of:

  1. it being 19th century German;

  2. it might have traits of 19th century Rhineland dialect;

  3. it uses random English;

  4. it's a speedily written letter so may have errors

Marx tends to use random English, French, Latin, Greek, Italian, etc words and grammar in his personal writings along with his own contractions in German, and just words he's made up

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

paulie-point his name is Joey Steel and don't you fuckin forget that anti-italian-discrimination

[–] LeZero@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

This is anti Georgian discrimination, heeeey!

[–] LeninsBeard@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Sorry ur wife died or whatever, can you send me 50 bucks?