Re: Nagelprobe -- (Latin [ad unguem]) -- Nietzsche's Zarathustra.

On 2025-06-11, HenHanna <HenHanna@dev.null> 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.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de