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I think that the British Rats are quite impressive. Especially the ones sitting in parliament...
Well, it is not like there are no such "rats" in the German parliament, especially since 2017 (though there were some despicable persons before, including among the staff)... .
Never claimed otherwise
Hey now, no need to denigrate rats in such a way.
Welcome to Estalia, gentlemen.
Fair enough. Rats might spread diseases and cause other problems, but they don't do this maliciously.
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
Wikipedia says that auf was sometimes used as a German nobiliary particle alongside the more common von and zu, typically to denote the noble's family being a branch of another noble family that itself is a branch of another one (and thus having their main place of residence be separate from those of the latter two). Can anyone here corrobate this?
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I looked this up at the university library and there I came across a different explanation.
Apparantly "von" is often (but far from always) used by people who became nobles later in life (like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) whereas "zu" and "auf" is strong indication that someone was born as such. Although if someone was raised to hereditary nobility, his children would also be known as "von" despite often being born as nobles.
"Auf" was apparantly an indication that the family was still in possession of the castle/city/whatever when the name was fixated, sometimes up to the Weimar Republic when titles were abolished.
"Zu" was apparantly often used by nobles who lost their land during certain upheavels, like the destruction of the HRE by Napoleon.
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
Does anyone know if "Kirsa" is actually used by Germans as a feminine given name? The few sources that claim this don't have any clear credibility; even Behind the Name
says that it's unverified.
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
Never heard it in my life and I work in Customer Service so I hear a lot of names...
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According to this here, it's an extremely rare name
Yeah, never heard it either
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The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
Ironically, the only people named "Kirsa" that I could find on the English Wikipedia with clear or strongly implied nationalities hail from Scandinavian backgrounds (Danish and Dutch, specifically), with one being a New Zealander on top of that; no notable Germans with the name, and even the results I found (barring one) even didn't have articles for them, but rather were just mentioned in passing on articles for other people/subjects. Even searching the German Wikipedia only gave me one extra result, which was a brief mention of one "Kirsa Siegemund" note as the "Leitung" ("management") for Otto-Hahn-Gymnasium.
Edited by MarqFJA on Dec 21st 2021 at 1:07:49 PM
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Hey, it was a case of Rodents of Unusual Size.
Beats the absolutely miserable British Rats.
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