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

 Ar an t-aonú lá déag de mí Meitheamh, scríobh Christian Weisgerber:

 > 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.

I have no knowledge of or interest in mineralogy, but I knew the word
„Nagelprobe.“ I couldn’t have given you a definition of it, I admit.

--
‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
(C. Moore)