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

On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 20:00:19 +0000, Aidan Kehoe wrote:

>
 Ar an t-aonú lá déag de mí Meitheamh, scríobh Christian Weisgerber:
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 > On 2025-06-11, HenHanna <HenHanna@dev.null> wrote:
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 > > 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.

  Thank you...  my AI gave me that 3rd sense, but I wasn't sure if that
was real.
   I'd say that...   Nietzsche's  sense  [sculptor’s practice of running
a

 > > fingernail across...]  is  all but forgotten today.

  https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nagelprobe
Synonyme:  [2] Bewährungsprobe, Feuerprobe, Feuertaufe, Lackmustest
                                [Trial by Fire]  -- as in   The Magic
Flute
  in  Newspaper articles,  very much like [Litmus Test] in English.
                            but less common.
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