On Tue, 6 Aug 1996 paul.murphy@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Dr. Michael Eldred's aside concerning the inherent superiority of the
> German language, like Heidegger's similar claim in the Spiegel interview,
> made me chuckle. Oh, these impure, mongrel languages, alienated from the
> pristine pre-lapsarian, pre-Babel Greek source by those bastard Romans,
> henceforth consigned to errancy and oblivion. Let us all solemnly surrender
> this ugly, degrading tongue and commence thinking in the Herrensprache, since,
> of course, die Sprache spricht (Deutsch). Reminds me of the passages from
> Benjamin's _Trauerspielbuch_ wherein he cites Baroque
> theologians of language, who insisted that Adam and Eve spoke German.
> Cheers,
> Paul N. Murphy
>
<chuckle indeed> Thanks for the laugh. Maybe they spoke sign language...
Tom B.
>
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> Dr. Michael Eldred's aside concerning the inherent superiority of the
> German language, like Heidegger's similar claim in the Spiegel interview,
> made me chuckle. Oh, these impure, mongrel languages, alienated from the
> pristine pre-lapsarian, pre-Babel Greek source by those bastard Romans,
> henceforth consigned to errancy and oblivion. Let us all solemnly surrender
> this ugly, degrading tongue and commence thinking in the Herrensprache, since,
> of course, die Sprache spricht (Deutsch). Reminds me of the passages from
> Benjamin's _Trauerspielbuch_ wherein he cites Baroque
> theologians of language, who insisted that Adam and Eve spoke German.
> Cheers,
> Paul N. Murphy
>
<chuckle indeed> Thanks for the laugh. Maybe they spoke sign language...
Tom B.
>
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"I'll take my coffee without sugar produced in slave labor camps, third
world plantations and by prison chain gangs, thank you."
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