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As an Italian living in Germany, and as a lover of the German language, I think this is not a good list. It reads like it was put together to fit the author's a
by camillomiller 7y ago
As an Italian living in Germany, and as a lover of the German language, I think this is not a good list. It reads like it was put together to fit the author's approach to coaching. Entwicklung, indeed, is the best example of this. It is exactly the same in English.
What's really fun about German: as a non native you can get to a point where you create involuntary neologisms by putting together words you already know. Surprisingly, Germans find it mostly funny and tend to understand well what you mean, suggesting that there's an underlying plasticity to this language, if you're mutig enough to play with it and its admittedly strict Grenzen. I just cant's wrap my head around the rule of writing every substantive with a capital letter though, which I interpret as an annoying need to always circumstantiate a purported objectivity of the perceived reality.
With some friends we started coming up with these neologisms on purpose. My favorite one is "Sonnenschuld" or "Wetterschuld", which is that feeling you get in Berlin when you have to work during the summer while the sun is shining outside. You know you're doing the right thing, but at the same time you know you're wasting a precious opportunity to enjoy a rather seldom occurrence.
- distances 7y agoInteresting that you find beautiful days to be a rare occurrence in Berlin. Perhaps because you're coming from Italy? I have the opposite attitude -- summer days are easier to spend inside in Berlin, as the weather is generally very good and there's always another beautiful day coming!
- drpgq 7y agoThe winter months in Berlin can be a bit grim.
- camillomiller 7y agoWhat you describe is making Sonnenschuld worse, because you know you have to take in as much sunny days as possible in the summer, preparing for the depressing gray days of winter!
- terofle 7y ago> I just cant's wrap my head around the rule of writing every substantive with a capital letter though, which I interpret as an annoying need to always circumstantiate a purported objectivity of the perceived reality. I think this rule actually exists to make reading german texts easier. IMO reading german without capitalized nouns is a lot harder, because you don’t recognize nouns on first sight.
- johannes1234321 7y agoIn English and other languages this works quite well without capitalizing each end every noun. (Only "proper" nouns) I don't know if it would hurt readability aside from habit of we'd capitalize only Eigennnamen as well.
- atregir 7y agoOh my, Sonnenschuld!!!! I feel you, I have felt this so often and talked about it too, but me and my colleagues didn't come up with this neologism :D Can we use it, can we, can we, bitte?!
- camillomiller 7y agoOf course you can!
- zwaps 7y agoSonnenschuld is a beautiful word! Thank you!
- camillomiller 7y agoGlad you like it :D