[SpamCop-List] Re: Subject of the day-- "Good software -- low worth"

[Robert Taylor]

In news:cq1s9p$6cd$1 at news.spamcop.net,
Mike Easter <MikeE at ster.invalid> sent:

> Mike Easter wrote:
>> net-nazism,
>
> Encarta sez nazism and pronounces it just the way it is spelled
> [stupidly], but other sources acknowledge naziism, which naturally would
> be spelled and pronounced the way I do, 'nazi-ism'

That's also the way I pronounce it (fluent in German);  but it's an
anglicized German "loan-word", anyway, so I guess you could flip a coin and
take your choice.  Off the top of my head, I forget whether the Germans
refer to "Nazismus" (as in "Kommunismus") or something else.  That would map
into "nazis-m" [Nazis-mus], sort of.  (I seem to remember that they refer to
that regime in terms of "time" in some sense or other;  e.g., "die
Hitler-Zeit" (The Hitler-Time) or similar.  Probably just as ambiguous there
as here.  Often, I heard such expressions as "damals" ("then" ... or,
"during that time", etc.) which rather gingerly left out any specific
reference to party _or_ Führer.

Interesting little piece of trivia.  Just the thing for a lazy Saturday
afternoon.  :)

    Regards,

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