Content note: This episode contains words and discussions relating to genitals. The words we use to describe parts of our bodies are often reflective of how we feel about these body parts. At the same time, these words we use can also affect how we feel and our relationship to these body parts, a case in point being perhaps the most intimate body parts, the genitals. In German, the word Scham ('shame') is part of multiple words that are commonly used to describe genitals and the pubic ar...
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Content note: This episode contains words and discussions relating to genitals. The words we use to describe parts of our bodies are often reflective of how we feel about these body parts. At the same time, these words we use can also affect how we feel and our relationship to these body parts, a case in point being perhaps the most intimate body parts, the genitals. In German, the word Scham ('shame') is part of multiple words that are commonly used to describe genitals and the pubic ar...
“Words are not just words. We do things with words.” And among the things we can do with words is express our attitude towards something. We can say things in a certain way to express it as a fact, or as something unreal, or to show that we want to be neutral about whether something is true or not. For these purposes and more, we have the subjunctive mood – in German, the Konjunktiv. In this episode I talk to Verena Hofstätter, a linguist and German teacher from Vienna. Together we take a div...
Yellow of the Egg
Content note: This episode contains words and discussions relating to genitals. The words we use to describe parts of our bodies are often reflective of how we feel about these body parts. At the same time, these words we use can also affect how we feel and our relationship to these body parts, a case in point being perhaps the most intimate body parts, the genitals. In German, the word Scham ('shame') is part of multiple words that are commonly used to describe genitals and the pubic ar...
