Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace
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Language Native Speakers Total Speakers Sources English ~380 million ~1.5 billion Wikipedia German ~76–95 million ~155–220 million Wikipedia Mandarin ~941 million–1.12 billion ~1.1–1.3 billion Wikipedia Well, it has 10x more speakers than German, but it still has fewer speakers than English and most of them are localised in a single country.
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At least most speakers of European languages will pronounce it close enough to German - though most will not do make the r in markt as hard as Germans do.
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"flow market"
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And why should we name things for the exclusive convenience of monolingual English speakers to the detriment of everyone else?
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Please stop being an obnoxious ass. English is the de-facto lingua franca of the world, acting like German is in any way comparable is just disingenuous.
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This is about localization, not about renaming the thing
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Interesting idea. How do you deal with illegal trade?
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Please stop being an obnoxious ass. English is the de-facto lingua franca of the world, acting like German is in any way comparable is just disingenuous.
I love that you called it the lingua franca.
Why yes, English is the French.
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Non-German but I am in the EU. Didn't find it odd at all. Just assumed it was "flow market" in German.
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I forgot its spelling the moment i scrolled past it.
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I love that you called it the lingua franca.
Why yes, English is the French.
Uh do you not know what "lingua franca" means or are you making a joke?
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Flohcebook Marktplace
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Sprich deutsch!
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They need to use an easier name, like Kleinanzeigen or something
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Flohcebook Marktplace
Fleabook
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It's not that bad. It's just German for flea market. And English speakers shouldn't have an issue with at least "Markt". Not far from a cognate.
Definitely better names but I think the bigger hurdle is getting the critical mass to get something like marketplace to work in the fediverse even with the perfect name.
