Very interesting! MY biggest engagement with German has been in philosophy, where the COMBINATIONAL power of German is still much valued for deriving *new concepts* easily.
There is a reason German is good for philosophy. It can be VERY precise in forming complex concepts. It is a shame that Heidegger cast a shadow over that. On recent: I have seen the movements towards "simpler German". I don't really understand them. Best wishes TT On Monday, 16 November 2020 14:44:47 UTC+1, PMario wrote: > > On Saturday, November 14, 2020 at 2:07:24 PM UTC+1 TiddlyTweeter wrote: > >> Though I can't speak German I recognize its *superb ability to recombine >> words into new concepts*. >> >> Describing TiddlyWiki is not easy. Germans are common here and could >> likely provide neat one-word-concepts of ... >> >> -- "a-program-that-changes-itself" (in German, one word?) >> >> > The closest I could come up with is: "sich selbst-veränderndes Programm" > > ATM there is a movement going on, which is named: "Einfache Sprache" ... > "simple language", which tries hard to avoid those combined words. The goal > is, to be understandable for everyone which reads German texts. Eg: Every > "News Portal" should provide information using "Einfache Sprache" > > There is "Leichte Sprache <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leichte_Sprache>" > ... "easy language", which should be even "simpler" to understand and read. > The goal is to make German texts (especially government texts) > understandable for people with "reading" disabilities. > > So while it's nice, that German language allows us to combine words and > give them a "slightly" different meaning, it also makes it more complicated > for "non native" readers. > > -mario > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/1431d2c1-951f-4b38-94aa-a38a57ee7412o%40googlegroups.com.
