Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.szaf.org!inka.de!mips.inka.de!.POSTED.localhost!not-for-mail From: Christian Weisgerber Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Re: Nagelprobe -- (Latin [ad unguem]) -- Nietzsche's Zarathustra. Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 18:05:02 -0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 18:05:02 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: lorvorc.mips.inka.de; posting-host="localhost:::1"; logging-data="81310"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@mips.inka.de" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (FreeBSD) On 2025-06-11, HenHanna wrote: > 1. Many educated Germans today don't know both meanings -- drinking > (which is more common?) and [sculptor’s practice of running a > fingernail across...] Oddly enough, neither feels familiar to me. My association was mineralogy or such, a check to see if a material is soft enough that it can be scratched by fingernail. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de