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submitted 11 months ago by Caitlyynn@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 17 points 11 months ago

Actually I think the root of it is "HKN KRZ", Hakenkreuz, aka Swastika. It was Nazis who came up with the format. There's also "NZS BXN", "box Nazis".

[-] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Is that like box wine?

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

Box as in the Klychko brothers.

There's no real equivalent of "to punch" in German, usually you'd use "schlagen" but that means to beat in general. And then "Nazis boxen" is a Kangaroo thing.

Also you'd be hard-pressed to find box wine in Germany. Sangria, yes, but not wine.

[-] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Ima gonna take that as punch one in the face and enjoy a sangria

Thanks

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Brandy pralines. It must be brandy pralines.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

You mean Nazis came up with something original? I'm very skeptical of that.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

It's not really new in the sense that it's the same ole "dress old symbols in new clothing to circumvent the ban on use of those symbols". I think the HKN KRZ thing came after Londsdale, the clothing producer, came down quite heavily on Nazis abusing their brand (If you take a Lonsdale shirt and wear a jacket over it says "nsda", only a "p" apart from what the Nazis want to wear). It's more craftiness, not really creative in the pure meaning of the word. Gollum is crafty, too.