Date:         Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:34:58 +0100
Reply-To:     Timothy Lee Harrison <tim@HARRISONLAND.CO.UK>
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From:         Timothy Lee Harrison <tim@HARRISONLAND.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: VW SUCKS...Re: name change of Volks Cafe...
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On Monday 17 Oct 2005 14:00, JordanVw@aol.com wrote:


> why bother writing. BTDT they dont care.  they do what they want to ,
<snip>

To be honest, why bother changing the name? "Volk" (in German) simply means a
"folk", or a "people" (e.g. of a country or race). It's spelt with a capital
"V" because in German, nouns are spelt with capitals.

You would argue that "VolksCafe" is actually just the "people's cafe", just
the same as "Volkswagen" split into its constituent words translates to
"people's car". It's a Germanic name for the cafe, because its intended
target customers are those who like German engineering.

Tim
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