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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2007Neuralgic
I have recently received details of a paper entitled: 'The German Corporate Governance Code: general acceptance and neuralgic norms - a second look' Having never before encountered the word "neuralgic" used in anything other than a medical context, I turned to the OED where I found: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. In extended use: painful, distressing; (esp. in Polit.) particularly sensitive or crucial; capable of causing a sudden, extreme, or far-reaching reaction; (also) characterized by such a reaction. 1977 S. J. PERELMAN Let. 16 Oct. in Don't tread on Me (1987) 335 I'm now being put through the usual neuralgic gymnastics, the TV stuff, interviews, and crapola that attend the birth of a book. 1977 Time 5 Dec. 11/2 Much has been made of Israel's neuralgic reaction to the joint U.S.-Soviet declaration in the Middle East that Vance and Andrei Gromyko hammered out in late September. 1988 Christian Sci. Monitor 3 Feb. 17 The Herb Doctor pulls out an affidavit substantiating his claim that his medicine cured a Louisiana widow ‘of neuralgic sorrow for the loss of her husband and child, swept off in one night by the last epidemic’. 1992 F. FUKUYAMA End of Hist. & Last Man 176 Abortion, for example, has been one of the most neuralgic issues on the American social agenda for the past generation. 1999 N.Y. Times 11 Feb. A8/3 Instead of the United Nations being asked to ‘authorize’ the deployment, the Security Council will be asked to ‘endorse’ it, a British diplomat said... For the Americans the ‘neuralgic word “authorize”’ was avoided, the diplomat said. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am puzzled as to how a norm can be described in any of the ways indicated. The citations suggest that this usage is more frequent in Leftpondia but since the authors of the paper appear to be German I wondered if it was a translation of a word more commonly used there. Does anyone have any ideas on this?  SignatureLaura (emulate St. George for email) >I have recently received details of a paper entitled: 'The German >Corporate Governance Code: general acceptance and neuralgic norms - a >second look' > >Having never before encountered the word "neuralgic" used in anything >other than a medical context, I turned to the OED where I found: <snip> >The citations suggest that this usage is more frequent in Leftpondia but >since the authors of the paper appear to be German I wondered if it was >a translation of a word more commonly used there. Does anyone have any >ideas on this? Google found an art website with a page that might help: http://www.mikro.in-berlin.de/neuralgic/concept/1_contempneuralgia.html Contemporary Neuralgia Our time is riddled by the pressing urgency of a change which is imminent, yet, for which we have no guidelines and few utopian visions. We experience the pains, the cynicisms and the helplessness of a globalised world, fully aware of its unsustainability. The exhibition project Neuralgic raises the question of how to react to the need for change. Taking oil and the technical 'nervous system' as its central metaphors and examples, Neuralgic investigates the vital infrastructure of contemporary societies, and how this infrastructure affects the way in which we live, and how we can translate our experiences into forms of expression and action. Eight European artists have been invited to explore such 'neuralgic areas' and their imaginary potentials. ... Neuralgia is "a disease, the chief symptom of which is a very acute pain, exacerbating or intermitting, which follows the course of a nervous branch, extends to its ramifications, and seems therefore to be seated in the nerve." (Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1998) Neuralgic pain extends through the filiations of the nervous system. It seems to be difficult to locate and independent of any structural lesion, and in many --> cases there is no identifiable cause for it. By analogy, we use | the term 'Neuralgic' as a metaphor for contemporary problems | with cannot easily be pinned down and localised, but which | evolve in relations, along trajectories, through distributive | systems. These are not 'unidentifiable', UFO-style problems, but | one's which need to be traced and tackled in the complex --> relational and conditional topologies of our contemporary world. Neuralgic looks at the geo-political, social and technical infrastructure, at contemporary modes of living and surviving, and at the possibilities for action and change. The project departs from the belief that art holds a potential to imagine such a scenario not as one of catastrophy and apocalypse, but as one of optimism, humour, absurdity, or sadness, as a way of dramatising the imaginable beyond the supposedly realistic, and without forgetting that there is a pressing reality that urges us to ask this hypothetical question. ... ... SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) >>I have recently received details of a paper entitled: 'The German >>Corporate Governance Code: general acceptance and neuralgic norms - a [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >>a translation of a word more commonly used there. Does anyone have any >>ideas on this? <snip> Neuralgic pain extends through the > filiations of the nervous system. It seems to be difficult to > locate and independent of any structural lesion, and in many [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > --> relational and conditional topologies of our contemporary world. > <snip> Wonderful stuff! Thanks, Peter. SignatureLaura (emulate St. George for email) > >>I have recently received details of a paper entitled: 'The German > >>Corporate Governance Code: general acceptance and neuralgic norms - a [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > Wonderful stuff! Thanks, Peter. Nothing a bit of mainstreaming on a three-legged diversity stool wouldn't cure. By a less strained analogy, we use the term "Ibuprofen" as a broadly Hippocratic metaphor more deeply centred on outreaches for those contemporary and current solution trajectories with regard to symptomatic issues tending wholly or in part to be characterized by post-Protestant relatavistic parameters of tangential palliation. None of the preceding analysis, read provisionally, is intended to impinge upon virtual territories properly within the scope of human, or indeed species, rights provisions, though such issues of intentionality should, and must, in definitive practice not be taken to inhibit such notional boundary-transitions: only thus (Hammer, Sapristi et al 2001) are we able to transcend Western subjective and objective provisionality in such ways as to arrive at imperative significance. SignatureMike. >Nothing a bit of mainstreaming on a three-legged diversity stool >wouldn't cure. By a less strained analogy, we use the term "Ibuprofen" [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >are we able to transcend Western subjective and objective >provisionality in such ways as to arrive at imperative significance. Are you sure of that? SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) > >Nothing a bit of mainstreaming on a three-legged diversity stool > >wouldn't cure. By a less strained analogy, we use the term "Ibuprofen" [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Are you sure of that? In the broader sense, yes. SignatureMike. >>>>I have recently received details of a paper entitled: 'The German >>>>Corporate Governance Code: general acceptance and neuralgic norms - a [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] > are we able to transcend Western subjective and objective > provisionality in such ways as to arrive at imperative significance. You're very good at this, Mr L, almost as good as my other erudite and charming friend Mike. But relativistic, shirley? As for tangential palliative solutions, I recently discovered the quite amazing difference between the price of branded and unbranded ibuprofen. I have wasted a horrifying amount of money over the last few months. SignatureLaura (emulate St. George for email) >As for tangential palliative solutions, I recently discovered the quite >amazing difference between the price of branded and unbranded ibuprofen. >I have wasted a horrifying amount of money over the last few months. It's always worth asking for an unbranded version of over-the-counter medication. SignatureLinz Wet Yorks via Cambridge, York, London and Watford My accent may vary [...] > > post-Protestant relatavistic parameters of tangential palliation. None [...] > You're very good at this, Mr L, almost as good as my other erudite and > charming friend Mike. But relativistic, shirley? Thank you. Damned good word, though, isn't it? I could spin you another page with that as a prompt. It was observed that previous studies had accorded little attention to the inherently bidirectional nature of transgenerational exchange transactions in subjectivised perception-paradigms. > As for tangential palliative solutions, I recently discovered the quite > amazing difference between the price of branded and unbranded ibuprofen. > I have wasted a horrifying amount of money over the last few months. Like Linz says. Go generic. I gather it's a Boots patent, so they don't care which brand you buy. SignatureMike. >>>I have recently received details of a paper entitled: 'The German >>>Corporate Governance Code: general acceptance and neuralgic norms - a [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] >> --> relational and conditional topologies of our contemporary world. >> Usually by neurasthenics >I have recently received details of a paper entitled: 'The German >Corporate Governance Code: general acceptance and neuralgic norms - a >second look' After further stirring of the neurons I suggest "systemic" as a synonym for "neuralgic" in this context. SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) Hi <<FIRST>>, Here is a scary SECRET about the Home Based Business Industry It's no secret that millions of people from around the world join home based businesses every year. And it's no secret that some of those people actually make enough money to quit their jobs and become financially wealthy. 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His spoken English is very poor and the first time he came to see me he introduced himself by saying "I Peng". Peng rhymes with gong. SignatureLaura (emulate St. George for email) >>I have recently received details of a paper entitled: 'The German >>Corporate Governance Code: general acceptance and neuralgic norms - a >>second look' > > After further stirring of the neurons I suggest "systemic" as a > synonym for "neuralgic" in this context. It wouldn't attract as much attention, being a commonly used word in this context. The journal in which the paper appears is fairly obscure but I've now found the abstract, which makes the use of "neuralgic" even more mysterious, since it looks like a very bog-standard study. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Based on a survey of all the companies listed at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, this paper analyses the extent of compliance with the German Corporate Governance Code. The investigation includes the recommendations as well as the suggestions of the Code. Overall, findings indicate a high level of Code conformity. Furthermore, the Code continues to contribute to the changes of the governance modalities of German firms. Nonetheless, Code standards remain which gain comparably less acceptance. We identify those norms, which are still rejected by the majority of the surveyed corporations and discuss why these compliance rates are currently low and whether they can be expected to increase in the future. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm sure I can do better with the concept. All I need to do is to bolt it on to a German philosopher...no, no, I didn't say that..shh.. SignatureLaura (emulate St. George for email) >>>I have recently received details of a paper entitled: 'The German >>>Corporate Governance Code: general acceptance and neuralgic norms - a [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >It wouldn't attract as much attention, being a commonly used word in >this context. There is that. Attention grabbing and comprehensible would be a better combination. > The journal in which the paper appears is fairly obscure >but I've now found the abstract, which makes the use of "neuralgic" even [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >I'm sure I can do better with the concept. All I need to do is to bolt >it on to a German philosopher...no, no, I didn't say that..shh.. Wazzat? I didn't hear a thing. SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) > I have recently received details of a paper entitled: 'The German > Corporate Governance Code: general acceptance and neuralgic norms - a > second look' http://www.dwds.de/cgi-bin/portalL.pl?search=neuralgisch http://dict.uni-leipzig.de/cgi-bin/wort_www.exe?site=2&Wort_id=64469360 http://www.duden.de/duden-suche/werke/dgfw/000/044/neuralgisch.44479.html http://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/neuralgisch usw. Adrian >>I have recently received details of a paper entitled: 'The German >>Corporate Governance Code: general acceptance and neuralgic norms - a [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > http://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/neuralgisch > usw. <whispers> Thank you but I don't do German and I don't want to mention the magic word... SignatureLaura (emulate St. George for email) > The citations suggest that this usage is more frequent in > Leftpondia but since the authors of the paper appear to be > German I wondered if it was a translation of a word more > commonly used there. Does anyone have any ideas on this? Your feeling is right on target. As another poster has already pointed out by giving links to German dictionaries, the adjective "neuralgisch" (neuralgic) is in common use in German in a figurative sense, usually matching "critical" and similar adjectives in English. German media regularly use, for example, "neuralgische Punkte"(literally, "neuralgic points") in a political sense. The English translation is "trouble spots": "Dieses Gebiet ist schon lange ein neuralgischer Punkt" (this area has been a trouble spot for a long time). Texts by Germans in English regularly have such oddities like the use of neuralgic in a way that is foreign to native speakers of English. Germans are invariably amazed to find out they're off base with their usage, and they're so confident of their English that they often won't believe a native speaker who points something out to them. Therefore, please be careful what you say to Germans so that you don't hurt their feelings. Regards, ----- WB. >> The citations suggest that this usage is more frequent in >> Leftpondia but since the authors of the paper appear to be [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > something out to them. Therefore, please be careful what you say > to Germans so that you don't hurt their feelings. Thank you, Wayne, that's very helpful. I'm not sure that I can promise to treat Germans any differently from any other nationality, though. SignatureLaura (emulate St. George for email) |
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