Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "Enough Nonsense; What is an "Assault Rifle"?" video.

  1. sturm/storm is the germanic origin word for the french/latin origin word "assault". it's used in that function in some cases in english, like referring to the historical event as the storming of the bastille, which also could be very accurately called assault on the bastille. in german, no other word than "sturm" exists for it. it's also rather goofy to refer to german historical sturmtruppen as storm troopers, the german term just directly means assault troops. that seems to be an enduring leftover within the english language of the world wars that english speakers fought against germans, in which using german or adapted german words instead of simple translations/direct equivalents was apparently a common way to highlight a supposed qualitative otherness of germans. another example that comes to mind is english speakers calling german tanks "panzer", when in german that is just the word used for all tanks - and, confusingly for english speakers who see germans seemingly calling any random military vehicle a tank, it's also commonly used as a part of compound words, in which it can mean either an actually looser defined noun "tank" when used with qualifiers like schützenpanzer/infantry tank/IFV or flugabwehrpanzer/air defence tank/self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, or"panzer" in a compound word can be the adjective "gepanzert" meaning "armoured", which gets shortened when used in compound words. that of course is a term applicable to many more vehicles than just tanks (for example the term panzerhaubitze does not also call that vehicle a type of tank, but rather an armoured howitzer), and non-vehicle items in military and even some in non-military use, and to some animals. the semi-extinct use of "herr" and "frau" by english speakers referring to germans also seems to follow the same othering principle, but more obviously so as most uses of it I have seen seemed to have been made in acknowledgement of this function.
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