The people who organized the launch of the Uber taxi service in St. John’s last week obviously didn’t know that über is the German word for over.
As in overdone or overblown - übertrieben - which was the event itself.
Excess: Überschuss
There are lots of übers.
Übermensch.
Super-man.
Not the comic book super hero but the superior human as oppose…
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