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WDYT? Yay or nay? Too stereotypically German?
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I'm not sure. When I was taking my class on 20th century germany I somehow encountered this name and fell a little in love with it, but as I repeated it to myself I couldn't really justify it. For one thing I felt like my love of the name was a little bit perverse and almost sexual (???) and for another there was no way I could say it in an American accent. So for me it is difficult to imagine it on a non-German. I ended up naming a character Werner; he was German and named after one of his uncles, which is why he had such an awkward dated name despite being like 16.Since then I've sort of gone off it, enough to where it makes me want to not return to the story he was in. Meh.
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Very German, very old-mannish, very unattractive, very nerdy.
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More like too dated and too ugly ;) Sorry, not a fan of Werner.

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I don't know if Werner is stereotypically German, but to me, it is a quintessentially German name. Oh, and it also reminds me of wiener. ;-)
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To me, it does seem too stereotypically German. Maybe that's because there was a German restaurant that my parents frequented for years, called Werner's Lake Edge. I can't imagine it on a non-German.It reminds me of "weiner" and "weiner", in addition to meaning a frankfurter, is also a slang term for the male member. It's a word I've always hated.
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I agree. Werner is stereotypically German but to German ears it sounds dated first and foremost.ETA: Actually the sausage is called Wiener. 'ie' is pronounced like EE in German while 'ei' would be IE.

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It's not bad - if pronounced the German way, unlikely here, it would resemble Vernon, which seems to have gone into abeyance!
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