XPost: alt.unix.geeks   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 04/01/2026 05:42, rbowman wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
   In anthropology 'Germanic' refers to a broad group of peoples who   
   inhabited NW Europe at or about the time of the late Bronze age onwards   
      
   So Czechs, Dutch, Denmarks ,Swedes, swiss, flemish, Austrian as well as   
   the English and Germans are all 'germanic'.   
      
   It was the Romans, who encountered the Germanii, who coined the term to   
   refer largely to 'anyone who doesn't speak Latin'   
      
      
      
      
      
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