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		jfengel 29 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural div... Sorta. The whole point of the strip is that they don't talk or act like children. "Schultz" is German for "brown". He's very much the author's adult POV, using a child-looking character to disarm the cynicism.

unwind 29 days ago | [–]

Brown in German is actually, wait for it, "braun".

impossiblefork 29 days ago | | [–]

Schultz actually is not German for brown. It's a name deriving from the name of a kind of medieval tax official.

rags2riches 29 days ago | [–]

> "Schultz" is German for "brown".

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