Maybe they rented the space a year ago, at the time anticipating a 2009 release?

Otherwise makes no sense.

In Dutch 'Germanic' (Germaans) refers to the 'Germanic people' and to the 'Germanic languages'.


It is easy to confuse it with German, with refers to the people of Germany, who of course are Germanic, but just one group of the Germanic people.

In Dutch you don't have this confusing 'cause we call the Germans 'Duitsers' and Germany 'Duitsland'.
But somehow in English the name of the whole group is used for just the Germans.

Actually it is used the same way in english, but we tend to classify any person who is descended from those who spoke a Germanic Language as germanic people. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_peoples

The Germanic peoples (also called Teutonic in older literature) are a historical ethno-linguistic group, originating in Northern Europe and identified by their use of the Indo-European Germanic languages which diversified out of Common Germanic in the course of the Pre-Roman Iron Age. The descendants of these peoples became, and in some areas contributed to, the ethnic groups of North Western Europe: the Danish, Norwegians, Swedish, Finland-Swedes, Faroese, English, Icelanders, the Germans, the Austrians, Dutch and Flemish on the continent, and the inhabitants of Switzerland and Friesland.

List of Germanic languages

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_languages

I'm trying to thing of something that is similarly grouped like this. The best I can come up with is the classification the U.S made called Hispanics. People could be classified as hispanic because they speak a language from the Iberian peninsula(latin-Hispania), but may have very little to no ancestors from this area.

I agree that the average English speaker without any knowledge about Germanic people will assume it is only relating only to Germany. Actually the average person doesn't even realize that English is  one of the Germanic languages. They assume it is a romance language, because of there are a lot of Latin roots.

@Ajax:

in Spanish Germany is called Alemania, as there are various old tribes living in Germany. In the northern part its the "Germanen", in the south more the "Alemannen".