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by rob74 848 days ago
It's not the lack of English-proofing, it's the connotations that this name has for Germans: "Sepp" is a very common and not really glamourous first name/nickname, and "frickeln" means tinkering or fiddling around with something (usually with the negative sense of tinkering rather than fixing it properly).
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How long has it been like this though? The meaning of words change surprisingly quickly, but not as quickly as their second-order connotations.