I took the "because of course" to be about having a word for everything - a stereotypical idea about the German language.

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dragontamer 4 hours ago | parent [-]

There's also the other implication that the (East) Germans were Soviet just 35 years ago.

But yes. We Americans know Germans more for their silly big words. But statements like that can be misinterpreted as the German perspective of themselves doesn't quite match the American stereotypes.

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	▲	eqvinox an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I was implying all 3 of the above: - we learned the hard way that data will be used to kill people, during the Nazi regime - we learned it again in the GDR with the Stasi being a little less obvious but still ruining people's livelihoods - and German comes up with compound words for such things
	▲	microtonal 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		East Germany was not Soviet. Under influence/control of the Soviets, yes, but not part of the Soviet Union.