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Re: [microsound] asmus



well, it proofs i am no scientific linguist. i checked my dictionaries, but
there aren't the best thing (and I am clueless why i had to buy them in
highschool). i agree: language is a vivid thing, rather then dead.

Frans


>frans:
>>  >...but it's rather "misguidedness of existence".
>>
>>well, i quoted the book and not dwelling of my own knowledge of German.
>
>i know. i'm correcting the translation from the book.
>
>>Although I speak and read a small bit of German and can almost see Germany
>>from where I live (nearly 6 kilometers) away, Dutch is a very different
>>language then German. But 2 Germans replied today to this thread (Till
>>Kniola and Stephan Mathieu) and they didn't say it was wrong...
>
>well, for whatever reason. i won't speculate :-)
>just trust me.
>
>>  Asmus is
>>known for combining words into one word that don't really exist.
>
>as soon as there are people that use the word with a meaning and all,
>it exists, even if you don't find the exact equivalent in a
>dictionary. i'm sure till, stephan and any other german understand
>the meaning of "daseinsverfehlung". but "missing existence" simply
>doesn't do it.
>
>>  the book
>>title is the best example 'monography'. it's either biography or
>>autobiography. the German, again as far as I know, doesn't know the word
>>'monography' (and is it the opposite of 'stereography'?)
>
>monografie is even in the dictionary. it means something different
>though (and in english, too), namely a (thorough, possibly
>scientific) study about a single + specific topic. such as the work
>of asmus tietchens.
>as for the meaning of "stereography", i can only guess.
>
>best!
>p.
>
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