i used to collect untranslatable words.
anjana iyer went a step further.

the girl with the silver heart

worte

Ich fürcht mich so vor der Menschen Wort.
Sie sprechen alles so deutlich aus:
Und dieses heißt Hund und jenes heißt Haus,
und hier ist Beginn und das Ende ist dort.

Mich bangt auch ihr Sinn, ihr Spiel mit dem Spott,
sie wissen alles, was wird und war;
kein Berg ist ihnen mehr wunderbar;
ihr Garten und Gut grenzt grade an Gott.

Ich will immer warnen und wehren: Bleibt fern.
Die Dinge singen hör ich so gern.
Ihr rührt sie an: sie sind starr und stumm.
Ihr bringt mir alle Dinge um.

Rainer Maria Rilke

dilettant

A dilletant: A person who enjoys the arts or someone who engages in a field as an amateur out of casual interest rather than as a profession.

"Violon D'Ingres" by Man Ray
Ingres's well-known passion for playing the violin gave to the French language a colloquialism, "violon d'Ingres", meaning a second skill beyond the one by which a person is mainly known. (from wikipedia)

words (tbc)

unique words

english
serendipity*
pretentious
selfconcious
seascape
cityscape
....

german
weltanschauung
lebenseinstellung
....

french
esprit
....

*"serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter" Julius Comroe Jr.

analog=real?

most articles about the internet talk about "the internet and the real world". what is "not-real" about the internet? didn't anybody coin a good phrase for the "offline world" or the "analog interaction" or the "non-digital communication" or "physical research" yet? there must a good word for it somewhere out there.

i remember the first time somebody showed me photoshop. i was totally disappointed. i expected a completly new and for me strange way of interaction and creation. instead i found a pencil, a brush, a rubber and a ruler and many more features i knew from the "real world".

facebook profiles = poesiealbum
sms = sending notes on the back of your name card with a messanger in eg paris of the 19th century
bounced email = rohrkrepierer

wortschöpfungen

aus dem museum für plansprachen in wien