WS1E1 Ver-rückte Wörter: Living this life

Oh, we humans are inventive. We have invented the wheel, the democracy, the breaking point for the cause, and the language. Today, about 9 billion people speak around 7,000 languages worldwide. You don't just need smart heads, but also a whole bunch of words. A nice big bunch of words. Words that mean our world. Here comes a small selection. What are languages? How do we learn languages? Where do we need languages? And how many? And how do languages work at all? My name is Verina and I am a language scientist. Every two weeks I look here for all these questions, answers from science. Double-ganger, forest loneliness, pain in the world. It seems indisputable and fascinating. It drives us to the limits of the language. But words are a language-based reality. They don't represent what we experience every day or experience. They are like filigree-pictures, which allow a very specific view of the world we experience. If we put all the cut-off words of a language next to and above each other, we get what is expressed with words in this language. When we translate it, however, we don't have to do individual cuts to simply exchange them. When we translate it, we have to work on our language so that what we want to express is visible through the gaps in the network of our cut-off words. We have to shift. The cut-off words in our language are so newly arranged that the gaps in one language are as good as the gaps in the other language. This works in some cases easier than in others. But it works. The words in this mini-staffel are so different than irreversible. They simply and simply make us crazy. They make our words crazy. And our spirit so that we can recognize what lies behind them. But listen to yourself. Episode 1 - Living This Life It is Tuesday morning. We wake up, get out of bed, have breakfast, go to the door. Like a trance. U-Bahn, work, U-Bahn, home. We drink coffee. One, two, three. Trator, Swedish. The third coffee. The life runs on rails and on the screen through the filters. TRIPF, TROPF, TRIPF, TROPF, Heile Welt. In 1982, an experimental film by Godfrey Reggio appears, which documented the separation of human and nature in time. Goyanis Katzee, Hopi. The Love in the Equal Weight. 40 years later it is over. We have reached it, a historic point in the history of mankind. The mass of all existing human-made structures overcomes the global biomass. We will not see it. The head in the sand and veins and safe. Strolls bird politics. Lowlands. A politics that prefers to solve problems than to deal with them. And the clock is running. Tick, tack, tick, tack. And still, things tower over things in our houses. Clothes, plastic, paper. Tsundoku. Japanese. The stack of books, without reading them. No time. The life goes on, on, on. But what would it be if today was this moment? Cairo. Greek. The right moment. To feel differently. Murma. Wagiman. Wait for the water and only look for something with your feet. Are we ready? Are we ready to work with the things we already have? Stuck, packed, hidden. Jogad. Hindi. A simple and unconventional invention. A solution that breaks the rules. To start where there is no plan yet. Desheras gansu. Portuguese. The ability to find improvised solutions to a problem. And to break through the devil's circle. The circular connection of cause and effect. In the opposite. In a positively strengthening process. Cercule vertue. French. An English circle. Again more perception. Meraki. Greek. Intensive, pleasant feeling. Strong wish for something. Instead of always looking and seeing. Kasuri. Swahili. Small and beautiful. Really looking back. Even if not always everything is perfect. Wabi-sabi. Japanese. The perfect. And the past. What if today would actually be this one moment? Will you join us?