{"id":8518,"date":"2024-01-24T12:14:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T12:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=8518"},"modified":"2024-01-24T12:14:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T12:14:56","slug":"verdrossenheit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2024\/01\/24\/verdrossenheit\/","title":{"rendered":"Verdrossenheit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learned French at school, but not very well. \u00a0I now wish I'd tried much harder. \u00a0The school had two French teachers and one German teacher and so it all depended which form (determined by the 11+ results) you fetched up in. \u00a0I sometimes wish I'd studied German as I have been to Germany much more often than to France. \u00a0I might have found it hard, however, to master all those compound nouns. \u00a0A few came to my notice the other day in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/6814fdd6-9fb3-4021-b822-faf4653aba6a?shareToken=40ad5ec0cac8cf6b2896c97bd89d15f3\">The Times:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Verdrossenheit<\/i> (a sullen frustration or disenchantment)<\/p>\n<p><i>Verunsicherung<\/i> (a feeling of insecurity)<\/p>\n<p><i>Unbehagen<\/i> (unease) \u2013 A favourite of Frau Dr Merkel<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That's it: verdrossenheit. \u00a0All three featured in an article about the all-pervading angst felt by ordinary Germans as many of the country's certainties unravel and net zero policies are abandoned. \u00a0The pictures were of farmers driving their tractors through the heart of Berlin \u2013 blocking it more like. \u00a0I read that the French farmers are off to Paris soon with their straw bales and slurry. \u00a0Just in time for the Olympics. \u00a0I wonder when our farmers will rise up against Defra. \u00a0On the 12th of Never, I hear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned French at school, but not very well. \u00a0I now wish I'd tried much harder. \u00a0The school had two French teachers and one German teacher and so it all depended which form (determined by the 11+ results) you fetched...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}