ATL meanings for OTL terms

fluttersky

fluttersky

Lutheran - a civil rights activist, a follower of Martin Luther King.

Hippie - originally meaning artificial hip, generalised to mean any artificial body part.

Capitalist - Someone who protests against the English Grammar Society's decision to remove all capital letters from language, and remains using capital letters.

Cooker - a chef.
 

Seleucus

Carlist/Carlism - Etymology from the old Germanic term karlaz, meaning 'free man', as opposed to a nobleman or slave. An ideology developed in the course of the Hussite Revolution of the 15th century, and the Peasant Uprisings of the 16th century, encompassing an anti-feudal alliance of burghers and peasantry that rejected hereditary privilege, absolute monarchy, and the divine right of kings. Considered today as a predecessor to Enlightenment-era liberalism.



OoC: I've always thought it passing odd that the name 'Charles/Karl/etc.', literally meaning 'free man' as opposed to nobility, became a common name for monarchs and rulers (it's worth noting that the same etymology also spawned the derogatory term 'churl.') I find it even odder that 'Carlism' came IOTL to describe a traditionalist ideology in Spain that supported hereditary privilege, absolute monarchy, and the divine right of kings, something exactly the opposite of what one'd guess from the first principles of etymology.
 

Legend-in-Exile

Water boarding - surfing

Handball - a game played mainly with your feet. (A variant of an original game played with the hands. Confusingly also called Handball)

Cookies - cupcakes (from Dutch for small cake)

Dutch - German
 

Superman

The Ubbergeek said:
That one could have happened perhaps easily if Germany had been united by a northern power with or even by what is now Netherlands, and if the Official German had been based on Low Germanic dialect(s) more than High Germanic ones!
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Or if we anglicized the German "Deutsch" to Dutch instead of anglicizing the Latin "Germania".
 

TRH

Pasteurization - A term for the pacification of guerrilla fighters by isolating the general population in concentration camps, as first demonstrated in Algeria by General Louis Pasteur in the 1870's.

Hussy - A slang term for a stay-at-home mom.
 
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vuun

Legend-in-Exile said:
Water boarding - surfing


Dutch - German
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This exists OTL if you count the Pennsylvania Dutch.


Argentine - A proponent of Bimetallism, based on their desire to back money with silver as well as gold

Muslim - Arabic term for a pacifist or antiwar activist

Quaker - Colloquial term for an earthquake
 
Driftless

Driftless

Donor
Jacobite - an adherent of one of the patriarchs of Judaism.

Fundamentalism - an mental approach to American style football favored by the great coach Vince Lombardi.

Trenchant - a gardening device developed by Professor Sir Hugh Trenchard

Hussar - a compact format of triple expansion steam engine.

Putz - a golf club used on the green.
 

Seleucus

Many of this ATL meanings tend to involve OTL terms whose meanings have diverged from the original retaining their original meaning instead (e.g. Carlism, Argentine, gymnasium, Asia/Africa, etc.) Maybe we should also work on creating the reverse - words whose meanings diverge from the original etymology in an ATL. An example would be the timeline "The Bloody Man", in which "Terrorist" becomes the ATL term for Quaker.
 

aktarian

Seleucus said:
Many of this ATL meanings tend to involve OTL terms whose meanings have diverged from the original retaining their original meaning instead (e.g. Carlism, Argentine, gymnasium, Asia/Africa, etc.) Maybe we should also work on creating the reverse - words whose meanings diverge from the original etymology in an ATL. An example would be the timeline "The Bloody Man", in which "Terrorist" becomes the ATL term for Quaker.
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Stakhanovite - person who deliberatly sabotages production/work by slowing down work process in environment where strikes are prohibited
 

Legend-in-Exile

The Ubbergeek said:
That one could have happened perhaps easily if Germany had been united by a northern power with or even by what is now Netherlands, and if the Official German had been based on Low Germanic dialect(s) more than High Germanic ones!
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Superman said:
Or if we anglicized the German "Deutsch" to Dutch instead of anglicizing the Latin "Germania".
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As far as I was aware Low and High Dutch were used until the renaissance, for The Netherlands and 'Germans' respectively. Then after the Dutch gained independence, the term Dutch came to mean just them to differentiate them from the others. Therefore a new term had to be used and the latin name was brought into usage.

It seems odd given that Germans refer to themselves with a variant of Dutch and the Dutch call themselves Nederlanders. So you could easily have this switch.
 

Some Bloke

Special Relationship: A translation of a phrase used in a speech by Chiang Kai-Shek in 1946, a common way of referring to the diplomatic ties between the United States and South China.
 

aktarian

Some Bloke said:
Special Relationship: A translation of a phrase used in a speech by Chiang Kai-Shek in 1946, a common way of referring to the diplomatic ties between the United States and South China.
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Special relationship: non-colloquial term for friends with benefits
 
Timaeus

Timaeus

Technocracy - rule of the state by artists.

Federation - what in OTL we would define as a Hegemonic Empire.
 
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