I started to suspect that “Geiger Counter” was not old German for “Gold Collector”, as he had said.

  • 7uWqKj@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    Silly him, it’s actually German for “thing that counts people who play the violin”.

  • litchralee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    Minor question: what does pre-fall mean here? Is it pre-autumn? (Yes, I’m American lol, where “fall” also means autumn) Or does it mean the years prior to the fall of the Germany in 1945?

    • Zikeji@programming.devEnglish
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      18 hours ago

      It means neither. It’s a commonly used term when roleplaying post-apocalyptic scenarios to denote “before the apocalypse”. So OPs scenario is survivors of an apocalypse lead to believe a Geiger Counter is a gold detector.

      Edit: to clarify, the “fall” it’s referring to is the fall of civilization