• SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    I deliberately chose that example for the shits and giggles.

    But now that I think of it, I guess I should explain some more. It doesn’t have to be a person to work that way.

    Usually it works like this: you have place names like: Wien (Vienna)
    Frankfurt
    Nürnberg (Nuremberg)
    Thüringen (Thuringia)
    Krakau (Krakow)

    by making them end in -er you can turn them into adjectives. (Keeping the capitalization, because they are names, although adjectives are usually lower-case):

    Frankfurter Würstchen
    Wiener Würstchen
    Nürnberger Würstchen
    Thüringer Würstchen
    Krakauer Wurst

    Those are all some kind of sausages (Wurst, pl. Würste, diminutive: Würstchen), by the way. And because they are well recognized and when the context is clearly about food, you can drop the noun entirely and the former adjective turns into a Noun, which can stand on its own. (But mostly distinguished by their article/genus)

    Frankfurter
    Wiener
    Nürnberger
    Thüringer
    Krakauer

    Though for some reason, “Pariser” is a slang word for condoms.