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be//log consists of three sections:
Quotes
In this sections, we publish and look for innovative, inspiring and insightful quotes from all fields and times – again with short explanations.
We are happy to accept ideas and examples with short explanations and the author’s/contributor’s name. After editorial review, we may then publish them. Please send your contributions to: info@be-design.info
Stupid words and stupid sayings
Peculiar misunderstandings and, at times, terrible fashions have sneaked into our language, and, in so doing, determine our thoughts without us being really aware of it. The words are simply used, used up, as if they wouldn’t constitute a problem – but, thinking is very much rooted in discourse, and this discourse predominantly takes place in the form of language. This is why we need to think about these stupidities and buzzwords and why they should be published together with short reflections.
We are happy to accept ideas and examples with short explanations and the author’s/contributor’s name. After editorial review, we may then publish them. Please send your contributions to: info@be-design.info
Anagrams
Anagrams (originally from Greek ἀναγράφειν anagráphein = rewrite) are words formed by rearranging the letters of a different word. Surprisingly often, anagrams are like a mirror – or distorting mirror – in relation to the source word; sometimes as a paradox, other times as enlightenment. There is obviously something the old and the newly formed words have in common. Anagrams are a source of linguistic imagination, they engender associations and they are simply a great type of game.
Discipline
comes from Latin and combined education and castigation in a way still typical for such times. This was literally adopted, in particular in the military or in sports.
However, it is completely inappropriate and rather depressing that of all things … Weiterlesen
This is one of the benefits of not going to the cinema: there are so many surprises.
Sometimes it’s good to forego certain pleasures in order to be all the more surprised.
Mädchen (Girl/Maid)
“The boy”, “the girl”: Even if we remain in this traditional separation of the sexes, it is still irritating to note that the female form of the child exists only in the neuter form in German (“Maedchen”), i.e. as a … Weiterlesen
there = three
Tranquillity is a step on the path toward stupidity.
Thinking is exciting and constantly confronts the thinker with questions and news. No chance to rest. Especially as calming down instills sleep, ignores questions and refuses to engage in questions.
But, one does not even need to get upset in … Weiterlesen
cut and dried
a cut-and-dried decision is totally hackneyed, and a standard phrase often used in management communities expressing that something is settled and does not need much thought or discussion; altogether something managers like: being (or pretend to be) a man of … Weiterlesen
pool = loop
Moral gravity makes us fall towards the heights.
Newton would likely have punished this woman with his contempt. Still, her fine sense for the possibilities and the power of thinking – which is not subject to gravity anyway – instills both courage and hope.
That was before my time
Younger people like to express this short sentence – inevitably – when a question is asked that refers to a past that is historically longer ago than these younger people are old or can remember. For in this way they … Weiterlesen