From: Dhu on Gate <campbell@neotext.ca>
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Twangste: Ancient German Misinfo
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 23:04:55 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:50:20 -0000 (UTC), Dhu on Gate wrote:
> It seems to me the Germans, inventors of machine printing, display a lot
> of defects associated with Printed Misinfo, starting with "authoritative"
> versions of the Bible, but no stopping there.
>
> A really Guud Example of what I write is the name Königsberg,
> the Teutonic Order's name for Twangste, a camp on a Riverbank
> in Pagan Prussia (Yea, those Prussians agin!).
I really have _no_ idea what Twangste sounds like or even means,
but I'm willing to bet it translates to "muskeg" in Cree.
>
> Königsberg means "Kings Mountain" in the Official German of the time
> being promulgated by the Teutonic Order, and it is a TOTAL LIE:
> Printed Mis/Disinfo. There is nothing like a Mountain anywhere
An' nuthin' like a King, either. Nearest was in Novgorod.
Dhu
> near the place, and the Teutonic Knights knew it (they'd at least
> seen Norway).
>
> So *STET* on calling it Kaliningrad!
>
> I'd even suggest that it's is a Prime Place to put the USMC
> on the ground there in a Joint Operation with Russia to provide
> some real security in a demilitarized Yurp.
>
> Dhu
>
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