alt Hacker NewsIt's just "The Wiener Slinger" in psuedo-German. The article mentions its origins.
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unwind • today at 2:06 PM
It's weird to people familiar with real German, since 'V' in German is pronounced like 'F' in English.
It's like they took a word already from German ("wiener" as in hot dog) and then broke it while trying to make it more German, or something.
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Yeah, it's jokey pseudo-German, like the old 1950s hacker meme about Der Blinkenlights [0].
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights