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lgrebe | 5 months ago

Jetzig reads funny in german something like "now-ish"

Jetzt = now [1]

German adjective suffix: -ig [2] The German suffix -ig attaches to nouns, verbs and even adverbs. Given this flexibility, it ranks among the most common adjective endings in German. You can use -ig words to express that something is a certain way or happens a certain way. traurig: sad, sadly wässrig: watery knackig: crunchy, crispy abhängig: dependent, addicted geizig: stingy

[1] https://de.pons.com/übersetzung-2/deutsch-englisch/jetzt [2] https://www.lingoda.com/blog/en/german-adjective-suffixes/

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unwind|5 months ago

The "-ig" suffix corresponds roughly to English's "-ish", I would say. As a native speaker of neither German nor English, though.

Onavo|5 months ago

It's a perfectly fine name. There's a billion dollar web framework company named Zeit which famously built https://now.sh

moritzruth|5 months ago

They rebranded to Vercel, most likely because Zeit turned out to not be a perfectly fine name.