Troy@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.ca · 8 hours agoFred Penner - Sandwiches Are Beautifulyoutu.beexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down12file-text
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minus-squareOida Grantla@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up5·8 hours agoPenner… a name that would make people in Germany Lauch… Lile Johnny Depp would be Johann Moron would Fred Penner be Frederik Bum.
minus-squareTroy@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 hours agoPenner is a common Mennonite surname, and there are are a lot of Penners in Canada. Mennonite low German (Plautdietsch) is more weirder. The wiki page has some good sample texts comparing it between Dutch and Low German. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plautdietsch My surname (Unrau) is also Mennonite, but could be German. This concludes my TED talk.
minus-squareAlbbi@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 hours agoIf I knew in grade school that Penner = Bum in German I would have been merciless to so many kids.
Penner… a name that would make people in Germany Lauch… Lile Johnny Depp would be Johann Moron would Fred Penner be Frederik Bum.
Penner is a common Mennonite surname, and there are are a lot of Penners in Canada. Mennonite low German (Plautdietsch) is more weirder.
The wiki page has some good sample texts comparing it between Dutch and Low German.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plautdietsch
My surname (Unrau) is also Mennonite, but could be German.
This concludes my TED talk.
If I knew in grade school that Penner = Bum in German I would have been merciless to so many kids.