> What happens if you want to use a metaphor or turn of phrase that's been forcibly obsoleted?
The same that happens when you try to read any old literature. Like the Illias, which talks about "wine-colored sea" (it was dark blue – the brightness was meant, not hue), or shakespear, etc.
> It's simply not something that belongs to the state, or even to the country.
That likely differs here because the German language was unified in the first place by an academic, and not through consensus.
The same that happens when you try to read any old literature. Like the Illias, which talks about "wine-colored sea" (it was dark blue – the brightness was meant, not hue), or shakespear, etc.
> It's simply not something that belongs to the state, or even to the country.
That likely differs here because the German language was unified in the first place by an academic, and not through consensus.