I’ve read in the news that some German music band called SDP made a new album "Zurück in die Zukunst".
Why is it not Zukunft instead of Zukunst? What does this mean?
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Sign up to join this communityI’ve read in the news that some German music band called SDP made a new album "Zurück in die Zukunst".
Why is it not Zukunft instead of Zukunst? What does this mean?
It is a play on words. Zurück in die Zukunft is the German title of a popular movie series (Back to the future). I guess they replaced f with s to mix in the word Kunst (art). What this might mean is left to the reader’s interpretation …
Edit: Thinking about it, I wonder whether it is intentional or purely coincidental that in old blackletter fonts the s letter used in Kunst (Kunſt) looks quite similar (to the untrained eye, at least) to the letter f. Example on Google Books