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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Lowkey hilarious that the English Wikipedia cites the original German name of this concept but there isn’t even a German page for it

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

i saw this comment, checked wikipedia, and yeah, there isnt

so i thought to myself: "i could translate the english version to german!"

then i remembered i don't speak german

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

didn't stop the guy who wrote 80% of the Scots wikipedia

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

hmmm interesting observation! why do you think that is? /gen

my guess is maybe the leftists who adopted the term from Engels are primarily english speakers (could be wrong)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It could be that, but probably it's mostly related to the fact that German Wikipedia, while big, doesn't match the English one in size. Some more obscure topics just aren't on there for no reason other than that it just didn't happen.