• Jesus_666@lemmy.world
    22·
    23 days ago

    We used to have one: “Solang das deutsche Reich besteht wird jede Schraube rechts gedreht.” (“As long as the German Empire persists every screw is turned right.”)

    Given that the German Empire failed spectacularly, this sentence isn’t very popular anymore.

    • friendlymessage@feddit.org
      8·
      23 days ago

      I know it as “Seitdem das Deutsche Reich besteht wird die Schraube rechts gedreht” (“Since the German Reich was founded, the screw has been turned to the right”), I always assumed it was because many things were standardized between the German states after unification and that this was one of these things, but I can’t find any reference to that.

    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
      3·
      23 days ago

      I have never heard that before this thread, possibly because I was born in Austria decades after the name “Deutsches Reich” was abolished.