German favourite words (was Re: Language Difficulty)

In a message dated 27.09.2001 10:59:34 AM, and_yo@HOTMAIL.COM writes:

>Thomas Wier wrote:
>>Quoting David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>:
>>
>> >     Odd.  Have you ever turned on an old television to a station that
>> > doesn't get any signal?  That's [C], or [ç].  I can't say I'm too fond
>>of
>> > that...
>>
>>No, that's not really it. [ç] is very distinct from television
>>noise. Getting back to German, for some reason, my favorite
>>[ç]-word is "gleich".  Don't really know why...
>
>I've always liked "tschechisch" [tSECIS] ...
>
>                                       Andreas
    I am inordinatingly fond of _Verfremdungseffekt_ - the word itself & the
concept - ever since I took German theatre and cinema courses in college more
than a decade ago.
    A related word-concept is the Russian word _ostranie_(sp?).

    "Changes in language mean changes in the interpretation of the world." -
Helmut Heissenbüttel (1921-1996)

    <<Und wozu Dichter in dürftiger Zeit?>> (And what is poetry for in a time
of scarcity?) - Holderlin


    czHANg