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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.
Keep your distance from me, or I shall murder!
This great and exceptional writer formulated the above demand as early as 1962 – not in 2020.
However, both for 1962 and in general, there is an immediate justification for this statement: a certain distance is always needed in order … Weiterlesen
Naturally
For several years now, it is noticeable that the term ‘it stands to reason’ has almost disappeared from everyday language in favour of the term ‘naturally’. Now, one can only explain this by the fact that ‘it stands to reason’ … Weiterlesen
heart = earth
school master = the classroom
Aesthetics is for me like ornithology must be for birds.
Justifiably, birds do not care about the debates and findings in ornithology. They just fly about, they tweet and they do many other things. The same applies to artists: if they complied with the demands, or simply the insights, of … Weiterlesen
Arts and Crafts
A similar misunderstanding is contained in the terms ‘applied arts’ and ’artisan crafts’. It results from the addition of the word ‘art’ because, here, this word is simply meant to designate a special kind of craft or trade, to upgrade … Weiterlesen
dormitory = dirty room
Fascination
If someone is fascinated, they have inevitably become subject to foreign domination because the word pertains to the so-called ‘fasces’, which were carried by Roman senators in order to symbolise their power and jurisdiction. It was certainly no coincidence that … Weiterlesen
Vermin is not neat and clean, in glass houses it’s never seen.
An intelligent critique of the Bauhaus and other transparent architecture. Somehow this style of architecture evokes associations of quarantine and hygiene, its cleanliness has the charm of a tuberculosis clinic. Everything that does not fit in, that is defined as … Weiterlesen