Comments on: Streichholzschachtel http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/15/streichholzschachtel/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:45:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: nemoDreamer http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/15/streichholzschachtel/#comment-19325 nemoDreamer Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:49:38 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/15/streichholzschachtel/#comment-19325 Man, sometimes I can be so overly dramatic... What I wanted to say was that the fire-bombing was a world-changing moment, a scar in our historical conscience. And yet we let it slip past and don't think about it's relevance today... or at least not on the Neocrats, where I expected it to pop up in a post by one much wiser than I. Also how does my grandfather feel about it now, and why haven't I ever asked him? Is it fair to bring it up with him? Man, sometimes I can be so overly dramatic… What I wanted to say was that the fire-bombing was a world-changing moment, a scar in our historical conscience. And yet we let it slip past and don’t think about it’s relevance today… or at least not on the Neocrats, where I expected it to pop up in a post by one much wiser than I. Also how does my grandfather feel about it now, and why haven’t I ever asked him? Is it fair to bring it up with him?

]]> By: Mogogo http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/15/streichholzschachtel/#comment-19327 Mogogo Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:31:25 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/15/streichholzschachtel/#comment-19327 i love you nemodreamer i love you nemodreamer

]]> By: nemoDreamer http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/15/streichholzschachtel/#comment-19329 nemoDreamer Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:54:36 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/15/streichholzschachtel/#comment-19329 Thank you, Hymie. One day, I'll have to write a long boring post on how German should be adopted as the universal secondary language. It is just so wonderful. "Streichholzschachtel": "little box that holds wood that you can strike": "matchbox"! Sometimes, you can even pack a whole paragraph into a single word... They call these "coathanger words" in french, where it's rare to have a word built out of 2 or more other ones. French requires so much flipping vocabulary! Enough. Thank you, Hymie.
One day, I’ll have to write a long boring post on how German should be adopted as the universal secondary language. It is just so wonderful. “Streichholzschachtel”: “little box that holds wood that you can strike”: “matchbox”! Sometimes, you can even pack a whole paragraph into a single word…
They call these “coathanger words” in french, where it’s rare to have a word built out of 2 or more other ones. French requires so much flipping vocabulary!
Enough.

]]> By: electra http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/15/streichholzschachtel/#comment-19354 electra Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:01:11 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/15/streichholzschachtel/#comment-19354 You should speak to your grandfather about it. Understanding of that generation's experiences of war and its consequences is crucial to humanity's growth and ability to learn lessons from its past. You should speak to your grandfather about it. Understanding of that generation’s experiences of war and its consequences is crucial to humanity’s growth and ability to learn lessons from its past.

]]> By: Mogogo http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/15/streichholzschachtel/#comment-19357 Mogogo Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:45:35 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/15/streichholzschachtel/#comment-19357 NemoDreamer - Saleem will tell you that the appropriate response round these parts is "Namaste" NemoDreamer - Saleem will tell you that the appropriate response round these parts is “Namaste”

]]> By: nemoDreamer http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/15/streichholzschachtel/#comment-19446 nemoDreamer Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:13:49 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/15/streichholzschachtel/#comment-19446 Mogogo, don't you slap me in the face with blog-etiquette! And I won't contribute to that words high cloud-ranking :) Thank you, electra. Especially now that I can phone him for the price of a local call... It's hard to cross the comfort-threshold with a family-member you only see rarely (different islands...) Maybe not a good subject for a phone-conversation either... :( But it's in the back of my mind. My wonderful Grandmother has advanced Alzheimer, but can recall childhood memories without a problem. She just doesn't know who her husband or children are....... It is our obligation to perpetuate family memory, especially if that memory is part of the greater cultural heritage. Mogogo, don’t you slap me in the face with blog-etiquette! And I won’t contribute to that words high cloud-ranking :)

Thank you, electra. Especially now that I can phone him for the price of a local call… It’s hard to cross the comfort-threshold with a family-member you only see rarely (different islands…)
Maybe not a good subject for a phone-conversation either… :(

But it’s in the back of my mind. My wonderful Grandmother has advanced Alzheimer, but can recall childhood memories without a problem. She just doesn’t know who her husband or children are……. It is our obligation to perpetuate family memory, especially if that memory is part of the greater cultural heritage.

]]> By: Saleem http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/15/streichholzschachtel/#comment-19448 Saleem Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:27:52 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/15/streichholzschachtel/#comment-19448 What are you saying? "Namaste" isn't in the cloud at all. What are you saying? “Namaste” isn’t in the cloud at all.

]]> By: nemoDreamer http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/15/streichholzschachtel/#comment-19463 nemoDreamer Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:46:17 +0000 http://www.neocrats.com/2007/02/15/streichholzschachtel/#comment-19463 true that. true that.

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