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Rewarding Life May Be Counter-Productive When Rewards Undermine Habits
A new friend of mine recently asked “how do you translate ‘rewarding’ into German?” I found it was fascinating that this was difficult to answer. We had been talking (and continue to talk) about how language and culture are closely … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged business, community, culture, Deutsch, economic, economics, engagement, Englisch, English, German, habit, habits, language, life, Ludwig Wittgenstein, practice, reward, rewarding, rewards, theory, translate, translation, work
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Unternehmungslustig
“Unternehmungslustig” is a German word for which there does not seem to be a semantically close English equivalent. It is a mixture of “adventurous”, “enterprising”, “thrill-seeking”, “fun-loving” and perhaps also some other concepts. One reason why this word might not … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged adventurous, American, community, cultural, culture, English, enterprising, fun-loving, game, games, German, language, norm, norms, risk, risk-averse, risk-seeking, share, shared, sharing, society, thrill-seeking, unternehmungslustig
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ICANN’s Plan to Privatize the English Language: Dot Gay
A friend of mine, Ray King, is one of the applicants for .Gay — and he just wrote: The current issue is whether a small group of the Internet elite understand the problems with delegating a single company as the … Continue reading →
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Tagged authoritarian, authority, corporate, corporation, corporations, dictate, dictator, DNS, domain, domain name, domain name system, domain names, domains, English, gay, governence, ICANN, language, monopoly, monopoly power, natural language, tld, top level domain, top level domains
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