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Who does not know the hit lists of the most beautiful words of the threatened words, the badwords of the year and so on.
Words such as: change of mind, or, forget–me–not, brainwave that moment, longing, advocacy, slow motion, wanderlust, belongings, wash bags,
thinking, quality work, holiday, Reiseruf, Rennpappe, Papperlapapp, jilted, Bright Eyes, continuous run, shutdown, but also Dunkeldeutschland ,
profit warning, human capital, high earners, leaving the center, release, appear annually in the media and in the pubs and show popularly the change and development of the German language, its very rich vocabulary.
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Language is constantly in change, it is adapting, reinventing itself, responds to time, events and social developments.
How lively or sluggish a language flows, how productive or destructive its effects are, as it naturally or regulated cleaves its way and which jetsam for example it leaves can be judged only with difficulty. Only when you stop, drop out from this movement and the current pass by, his true nature may be revealed .
The sound of the language around us then like the rush of a river. What flows quiet and harmless can develop in the next moment into a destructive elemental force!
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Words are like water, they can destroy or grow. Yes, every word has the ability, depending on the application, to form various, sometimes contradictory connotations.
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The Rhine and the Loreley rock in order to remain in the picture, represent, like no other landscape in Germany, this polarity of beauty and disaster, of harmony and damage.
Not by chance they were, as a favorite of German mythology, celebrated by poets and writers of all ages, turning to a word and language source in whose light the German language is reflected.
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On the occasion of rheinpartie 2009, we use the Rhine at the Lorelei rock, St. Goar to think with their funds through the analogy of the river and language, landscape and culture.
While two Pani–slideprojectors cast as a still of words and terms from the terminology on the Loreley, two other projectors are equipped with film drives, which enable horizontal scrolling texts on the rockwalls.
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A river of words and meanings of various sizes is created, which accompanies a piece of the Rhine river. The superimposed lines lead to a sharp, nonlinear reading. Every word may be added to the other in new contexts.
All levels of German language and codes flow in the rivers velocity and are fragmentary for today's thinking and speaking.
A place, a rock, a landscape, a river inspired us to a complex reflection on language, word formation and language development.
Language flows!
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