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Ersatz:<\/i><\/p>\n

Ersatz<\/i>\u00a0is a\u00a0German<\/a>\u00a0word literally meaning\u00a0substitute<\/i>\u00a0or\u00a0replacement<\/i>.[2]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Although it is used as an adjective in\u00a0English<\/a>, it is a\u00a0noun<\/a>\u00a0in German. In German orthography noun phrases formed are usually represented as a single word, forming compound nouns such as\u00a0Ersatzteile<\/i>\u00a0(“spare parts”) or\u00a0Ersatzspieler<\/i>\u00a0(“substitute player”). While\u00a0ersatz<\/i>\u00a0in English generally means that the substitution is of unsatisfactory or inferior quality compared with the “real thing”, in German, there is no such implication: e.g.,\u00a0Ersatzteile<\/i>\u00a0‘spare parts’ is a technical expression without any implication about quality, whereas\u00a0Kaffeeersatz<\/i>\u00a0‘coffee substitute<\/a>‘ is not made from coffee beans, and is thus inferior. [Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Noted in “Fact check: Images of alleged giant human skeletons are altered<\/em><\/a>,” Reuters<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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Followers of this conspiracy contend not only that\u00a0\u201cthe trees we see now are small ersatz versions of giant, 20-mile-high trees that used to exist on earth in ancient times,\u201d\u00a0as\u00a0related in a Quartz article\u00a0here<\/a> , but also that giants who once roamed the earth were the ones who cut them down.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I was not aware of the exact connotations of ersatz. There’s a pun in this somewhere, but I’m too crabby to dig it out. Oh, there’s one in that, too.<\/p>\n

Take my keyboard away from me. Or my sense of humor.<\/p>\n

Maybe someone should tell these folks there were monstrous dogs that roamed the earth, and they formed the Rocky Mountains in a process that is not for the delicate. And then they chased down and ate Paul Bunyan. The ravaged skeleton can be seen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ersatz: Ersatz\u00a0is a\u00a0German\u00a0word literally meaning\u00a0substitute\u00a0or\u00a0replacement.[2]\u00a0Although it is used as an adjective in\u00a0English, it is a\u00a0noun\u00a0in German. In German orthography noun phrases formed are usually represented as a single word, forming compound nouns such as\u00a0Ersatzteile\u00a0(“spare parts”) or\u00a0Ersatzspieler\u00a0(“substitute player”). While\u00a0ersatz\u00a0in English generally means that the substitution is of unsatisfactory or inferior quality \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32338,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32337\/revisions\/32338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}