Timeline for Why is "Fräulein" considered offensive, as opposed to "Frau"?
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| Aug 8, 2015 at 4:52 | comment | added | user2183 | Just as relevant for German Fräulein as for English Miss (or Hofstadter's Niss referring to unemployed blacks): "A Person Paper on Purity in Language" by Douglas Hofstadter. The full text should be easy enough to find with Google. | |
| Aug 8, 2015 at 4:46 | comment | added | user2183 | Just an aside on the the second question, since the main one has been answered well. Definitely no associations of lower class whatsoever. Actually the opposite is true to some extent. While most modern connotations of Fräulein are almost identical to those of Miss in English, Fräulein can also be used in contexts where it denotes nobility: "adliges Fräulein". This dates back to the time when Frau was still meant noble lady, Frauenzimmer referred to the non-noble women surrounding one, and the normal word for woman was Weib. | |
| Jan 12, 2014 at 9:10 | history | protected | Wrzlprmft♦ | ||
| Jan 17, 2012 at 12:34 | comment | added | Edd Turner | Sorry not to answer the question… but this link sheds some light on the surrounding issues! BBC News feature on a French town banning the word for 'Miss' | |
| Jan 16, 2012 at 13:47 | answer | added | Paul | timeline score: -1 | |
| Nov 26, 2011 at 21:33 | history | edited | user508 |
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| Jun 15, 2011 at 1:41 | answer | added | Jürgen A. Erhard | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 7, 2011 at 0:58 | vote | accept | Dominique | ||
| Jun 4, 2011 at 14:16 | answer | added | Alama | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 4, 2011 at 12:09 | history | edited | RegDwight | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 4, 2011 at 12:00 | history | edited | RegDwight | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 4, 2011 at 9:29 | answer | added | Phira | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jun 4, 2011 at 8:31 | answer | added | Lumi | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 4, 2011 at 6:58 | answer | added | Takkat | timeline score: 37 | |
| S Jun 4, 2011 at 5:44 | history | suggested | Samuel Herzog | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 4, 2011 at 4:15 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackGerman/status/76864672162254849 | ||
| Jun 4, 2011 at 3:02 | answer | added | user unknown | timeline score: 15 | |
| Jun 4, 2011 at 1:46 | answer | added | Samuel Herzog | timeline score: 31 | |
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| Jun 4, 2011 at 1:33 | answer | added | Dominik | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 4, 2011 at 1:04 | history | asked | Dominique | CC BY-SA 3.0 |