today's random Gedanken!

1. visualise an apple.... what colour is it? my archetypal apple is green, yet i suspect the more common consensus is on red, with the snow white red/green option being a very small minority (of dwarves??) this [i]Gedankenexperiment[/i] works less well with oranges. 2. German provides some great technical terms & precise words for subtle concepts like [i]angst, schadenfreude, zeitgeist, Doppelg‰nger, Gestalt, Weltanschauung, Bildungsroman [/i] today i learnt of '[i]Witzelsucht[/i]' - "a pathological compulsion to make jokes" & then while checking my spelling another '[i]Gem¸tlichkeit[/i]' - "an atmosphere of cozy comfort, warm cordiality" Wunderbar!