For the Sturmgeist album see Über . Über () comes from the German language. It is a cognate of both Latin super and Greek ???? (hyper), as well as English over (as in "overkill"). During the 2000s, über also became a synonym for super; e.g. überleet = superleet, generally with a slightly intensified meaning. Über is commonly written as uber in English, though with slightly different meaning. One of the first popular modern uses of the word as a synonym in English for super was a Saturday Night Live TV sketch in 1979. The sketch, What if?, pondered the notion of what if the comic book hero Superman had landed in Nazi Germany when he first came from Krypton. Rather than being called Superman, he took the name of Uberman.[LINK: http://snltranscripts.jt.org/78/78jwhatif.phtml] What If?,

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