Re: Resilience

On Mon, 17 Jun 2024, HenHanna wrote:

On 6/17/2024 12:17 AM, Marco Moock wrote:

On 17.06.2024 um 08:59 Uhr Steve Hayes wrote:
 

"Resilience" was a word I used to see about -10 times a year, and now
I'm seeing it as many times in a day.
 
Has anyone else noticed this?

 
In Germany it started during the covid era. Most use cases include a
vast amount of bullshit.
 

 
 
do    yo u   mean  the German word for  [Resilience]  ?

I do not think there is a single German word with the same meaning. That’s
why the word has been adopted (as "Resilienz") into many scientific
contexts, see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resilienz . It is not (yet?)
used in everyday language.

A translation in dictionaries is "Widerstandsfähigkeit" (lit. meaning:
resistence ability), but this denotes first and foremost the prevention of
harm and damage in case of an attack (no matter whether by natural or
human forces); in English I would call that robustness. Resilience does
more focus on (or at least include) the ability to recover from harm and
damage already suffered.

--
Helmut Richter