Quotable quotes

[belamyi]

^ You mean I was translating? I was NOT: I was spansplaining

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

#facepalm#

 

[belamyi]

^ What.

 

[Araucaria]

^"Because where there are no terms, a word appears at the right time." - Goethe

You made me go to my Google translate twice on this one, since I had forgotten what it gave me the first time. I'm posting it here, so I won't have to translate it a third time!

 

[belamyi]

^ "You" who?

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Oh, and that's sooooo googletranslated

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....

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

^ "Denn eben wo Begriffe fehlen, da stellt ein Wort zur rechten Zeit sich ein." - Goethe

A "Begriff" is a term or a concept. It derives from the verb "begreifen", which means "understanding emotionally", "grasp"

So "precisely where our understanding in concepts fails, a word will appear at exactly the right time." is probably a better translation. What is going on in this sentence in the tension between the similarty of the meaning of "Begriff" and "Wort" and their paradoxical difference.

So you´ll find words to describe your situation exactly where emotional comprehension fails you.

 

[belamyi]

^ What is going on in that sentence is the danger of actually making anyone believe that "words" could be a substitute for "concepts", as if there could be "words" without "concepts".

The same as saying "it's just semantics", as if "semantics" were some sort of frosting over "language" and "communication", and not their very dough.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

^ What is going on in that sentence is the danger of actually making anyone believe that "words" could be a substitute for "concepts", as if there could be "words" without "concepts".

I would have to read more of the essay to be sure.

 

[belamyi]

"Die echte Wahl besteht nicht darin, daß man unter vielen Wesen, die man lieben könnte, eines vorzieht; die echte Wahl besteht darin, daß man gar nicht mehr fähig ist, außer einem ganz bestimmten Wesen, ein anderes zu lieben." Ortega y Gasset

 

[rareboy]

 

[belamyi]

^ AM or PM? Oh, he means both.

But in what country, region, city, neighbourhood, stage of life..?

 

[belamyi]

Forget it

 

[purina]

^Who said that?

 

[belamyi]

^Who said that?

 

[belamyi]

Wasn't expecting to find something that reasonable in him :

"No hay posibilidad de un lenguaje universal, hay que hacer opciones exclusivas a partir de la universalidad". - Carlos-Peregrín Otero

 

[mydrew1]

Against hypocrites, dunno whom said it; "You can't torpedo a passenger ship and then congratulate yourself you picked up a few survivors!"

 

[belamyi]

Against hypocrites, dunno whom said it; "You can't torpedo a passenger ship and then congratulate yourself you picked up a few survivors!"

Yes you can: they call it banking.

 

[PalacePaul]

 

[belamyi]

Say not always what you think of others, but never say what you think others think. - C

 

[belamyi]

"If you could not figure out how you could get out of a crisis, you would be even less able to figure out how to avoid it." . - Me Yet Again