Obscure Or Obvious?

[debka_notion]

Do you know what a doppelganger is? More accurately, how troubled should I be that many of my rabbinical school classmates a. don't know what a doppelganger is, and b. try to spell it as two words?

Just a thought from the insane place in my mind that is me trying to avoid exams...

Comments

[fiddledragon.livejournal.com]

I definitely know what one is. I know what considerably more obscure fantastic creatures are as well, but I thought that one was pretty well-known.

(And it's pretty clearly a German word. When in doubt, assume that a German noun is one word. I thought that was fairly well-known, too, if only as something to mock the Germans about.)

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

German nouns can get awfully scary...