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  • Re: Nagelprobe -- (Latin [ad unguem]) -- Nietzsche's Zarathustra.

    From Christian Weisgerber@21:1/5 to HenHanna on Wed Jun 11 18:05:02 2025
    On 2025-06-11, HenHanna <HenHanna@dev.null> wrote:

    1. Many educated Germans today don't know both meanings -- drinking
    (which is more common?) and [sculptor’s practice of running a
    fingernail across...]

    Oddly enough, neither feels familiar to me. My association was
    mineralogy or such, a check to see if a material is soft enough
    that it can be scratched by fingernail.

    --
    Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de

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  • From Aidan Kehoe@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 11 21:00:19 2025
    Ar an t-aonú lá déag de mí Meitheamh, scríobh Christian Weisgerber:

    On 2025-06-11, HenHanna <HenHanna@dev.null> wrote:

    1. Many educated Germans today don't know both meanings -- drinking (which is more common?) and [sculptor’s practice of running a fingernail across...]

    Oddly enough, neither feels familiar to me. My association was
    mineralogy or such, a check to see if a material is soft enough
    that it can be scratched by fingernail.

    I have no knowledge of or interest in mineralogy, but I knew the word „Nagelprobe.“ I couldn’t have given you a definition of it, I admit.

    --
    ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
    How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
    (C. Moore)

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  • From HenHanna@21:1/5 to Aidan Kehoe on Thu Jun 12 17:14:25 2025
    On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 20:00:19 +0000, Aidan Kehoe wrote:

    Ar an t-aonú lá déag de mí Meitheamh, scríobh Christian Weisgerber:

    On 2025-06-11, HenHanna <HenHanna@dev.null> wrote:

    1. Many educated Germans today don't know both meanings --
    drinking
    (which is more common?) and [sculptor’s practice of running a fingernail across...]

    Oddly enough, neither feels familiar to me. My association was
    mineralogy or such, a check to see if a material is soft enough
    that it can be scratched by fingernail.

    I have no knowledge of or interest in mineralogy, but I knew the word „Nagelprobe.“ I couldn’t have given you a definition of it, I admit.


    Thank you... my AI gave me that 3rd sense, but I wasn't sure if that
    was real.

    I'd say that... Nietzsche's sense [sculptor’s practice of running
    a
    fingernail across...] is all but forgotten today.




    https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nagelprobe

    Synonyme: [2] Bewährungsprobe, Feuerprobe, Feuertaufe, Lackmustest
    [Trial by Fire] -- as in The Magic
    Flute


    in Newspaper articles, very much like [Litmus Test] in English.
    but less common.

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    Nagelprobe is a word that's often used about politicians, etc.

    and would not be used for Greta Thunberg , because
    she is seen as a Lightweight by the Media.



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