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		fnordian_slip 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pfeilstorch I thought of the discworld. https://wiki.lspace.org/Klotz

a3w 5 months ago [–]

I think the german names of Überwald are not just german sounding, but the author really meant it: A Klotz is a brick or block.

Symbiote 5 months ago | [–]

I haven't read Carpe Jugulum for years, but the slow/dim/clumsy meaning of Klotz has been adopted into (American) English as "klutz".

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