That’s another good question to raise; I make no bones about being angry about being an Amerikan-- so as a result, I can’t say I know German culture like that to know if there’s a lesser-degree offensiveness in the mother tongue that got changed over.
There is. Replace the first I with an E and remove one of the Gs. Nowadays it’s obviously extremely offensive but as far as I know back then - even though still offensive - it wasn’t as bad. Kind of like the English term ending with O.
That’s another good question to raise; I make no bones about being angry about being an Amerikan-- so as a result, I can’t say I know German culture like that to know if there’s a lesser-degree offensiveness in the mother tongue that got changed over.
There is. Replace the first I with an E and remove one of the Gs. Nowadays it’s obviously extremely offensive but as far as I know back then - even though still offensive - it wasn’t as bad. Kind of like the English term ending with O.