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BranShea #188902 01/24/10 01:15 AM
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@zmjezhd: Ding an sicht? Is this a Wortspiel(pun)?

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Is this a Wortspiel(pun)?

I'd love to say that it was, but it ain't. Don't know what I was thing, but das Ding an sich 'the thing-in-itself' was something I've read and seen and heard a whole bunch. Perhaps, the excrescent c descended from the mispronunciation of often?


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Das Ding an sich or Das Ding an sicht. What will it be if it is not a word play?

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What will it be if it is not a word play?

zB: Das Ding sucht um Urlaub an.


Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Beurlaubte oder unbeurlaubte Urlaub?

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„Denn die philosophischen Probleme entstehen, wenn die Sprache feiert.“ L Wittgenstein Philosophische Untersuchungen, §38.

[Corrected typo.]

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