• splendoruranium@infosec.pubEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I used to have a (high-ranking and well-educated) foreign colleague who used to think that the “Main” indeed signified that this was the bigger and more significant of multiple Frankfurts.
    I honestly can’t blame him, it was a deceptivley plausible misconception.

    • Flipper@feddit.org
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      7 days ago

      There is another Frankfurt. It’s lies on the river Oder. The same word for other.

      So there is Frankfurt Main and Frankfurt Other.

      • obstbert@feddit.org
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        7 days ago

        For people learning German: “oder” means “or” “andere/r/s” means “other”.

        I like the joke though