In Ben Brantley's review of Hamlet in today's NY Times:  "And Mr. Waterston, who is today best known as the uber-prosecutor Jack McCoy on "Law and Order," invests Polonius with real pathos as well as humor."
 
Jane Saral
Atlanta

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:44 PM, STAHLKE, HERBERT F <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
I missed the song, but I fear my ignorance of pop culture is profound.

Herb

Herbert F. W. Stahlke, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of English
Ball State University
Muncie, IN  47306
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Subject: Re: "Über"-use

STAHLKE, HERBERT F wrote:
> About the only German use of "ueber" that most Americans are aware of is in the title of the national anthem, and that only because of the notoriety the Nazis gave it.  So it gets borrowed with a high back rounded vowel and the sense "excessive(ly)".
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> Herb
Well, there is also the song, "California Uber Alles", circa 1979 by the
Dead Kennedy's, a punk band from San Francisco. I see uber used as a
kind of superlative on the net, but have no idea how mainstream it has
become. A common sighting in the wild is "uber noob". This is mostly
confined to the gaming community. This sense seems more like "super"
than "excessively".

Mark

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