January 3rd, 2010 / 5:10 am
Snippets
Snippets
Ken Baumann—
This image at VVORK has stuck. And this interview with designer maestro/badass John Gall. And this new site for Christopher Brand, another designer in bookland. And this incredible German word.
Grief Bacon. Gorgeous.
Grief Bacon. Gorgeous.
OK, you were asking for this. So here comes the German AND the teacher in me. A deadly combiantion, as you well know.
Translating the German word Speck as “bacon”, though not incorrect in itself, may give Anglo-American speakers a wrong idea here. In German, “Speck” is not only used for what some people have with eggs in the morning, but also – perhaps even more often – for the flab around your waist, albeit without any negative connotations at all, unlike the English word. So, when we use the word “Kummerspeck”, it is really quite an endearing term that evokes no associations with food whatsoever and does not have a negative ring to it at all.
OK, you were asking for this. So here comes the German AND the teacher in me. A deadly combiantion, as you well know.
Translating the German word Speck as “bacon”, though not incorrect in itself, may give Anglo-American speakers a wrong idea here. In German, “Speck” is not only used for what some people have with eggs in the morning, but also – perhaps even more often – for the flab around your waist, albeit without any negative connotations at all, unlike the English word. So, when we use the word “Kummerspeck”, it is really quite an endearing term that evokes no associations with food whatsoever and does not have a negative ring to it at all.
Addendum: Even more often than Kummerspeck we use the word “Babyspeck” to describe the cute flabbiness of babies. And although we Germans have had a rather chequered past, we do not think of babies as bacon.
Addendum: Even more often than Kummerspeck we use the word “Babyspeck” to describe the cute flabbiness of babies. And although we Germans have had a rather chequered past, we do not think of babies as bacon.
Kummerspeck makes good adaptive sense, given recent research that a high-fat diet relieves anxiety and depression
Kummerspeck makes good adaptive sense, given recent research that a high-fat diet relieves anxiety and depression
That’s funny. The first thing that comes to mind when I think of babies is bacon. Well, the second thing.
That’s funny. The first thing that comes to mind when I think of babies is bacon. Well, the second thing.
Thanks for the info, Matthias. I was hoping you’d report. :)
I love you so much.
Thanks for the info, Matthias. I was hoping you’d report. :)
I love you so much.
Easily my favorite comment/response of the new year.
Easily my favorite comment/response of the new year.
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<3
LooooooooooooL.
LooooooooooooL.