• 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    There are 0.5 to 1.5 billion people who know English, while there are at most 0.2 billion people who know some German worldwide, I thought the lemmywide proportion would be a bit similar.

    • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.orgEnglish
      11·
      18 hours ago

      But if you translate the name and someone tries to look up the person, they won’t be able to find them. Names are usually not translated no matter if they are coincidentally combined of two translatable words.

      • smeg@feddit.ukMEnglish
        6·
        17 hours ago

        Given that this is an English-language community for amusingly coincidental names I don’t think we’d have been able to appreciate the joke without the translation!