{"id":1403,"date":"2021-05-17T07:13:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T06:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2021-05-17T07:13:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T06:13:10","slug":"we-are-wordsmiths-colin-rae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kleinwolfpeters.com\/?p=1403&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"We are wordsmiths: Colin Rae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this issue: Colin Rae, Key Account Manager<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What is your goal for 2021?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019m keen to continue with what I began last year, which I would describe as tying up loose ends. In other words, I\u2019m using this \u201cenforced solitude\u201d to chase up things I\u2019ve been trying to get to for years: read that book, watch that film, cook that dish, start that hobby. Many of the activities continue to be quite mundane, but I find the process of ticking things off my mental list to be immensely satisfying.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Over the course of your career, have you noticed specific changes in language usage?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I often feel like the rope in a linguistic game of tug-of-war between traditionalists and progressives. Sometimes it seems like I have to use all my strength to maintain \u201cproper\u201d usage, while also feeling the pull towards the new. One thing I\u2019ve noticed over the years is how German has become littered with English verbs bent by the vice of German conjugation (managen, canceln, downgeloadet, geordert) when there are already perfectly good German terms. Perhaps I\u2019m particularly sensitive to this because it seems like many of the Scottish words that populated my childhood are slowly disappearing \u2013 some my favourites being dreich (an adjective for the weather meaning bleak, dismal), muckle (large, unwieldy) and glaikit (a blank, foolish facial expression).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What animal are you tempted to translate literally?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Faultier (literally \u201clazy animal\u201d) or sloth is very close to my heart, but I\u2019m also fond of the G\u00fcrteltier (belt animal) or armadillo because the German word makes me think of the Belted Galloway cows that peppered the countryside where I grew up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Is the glass half full or half empty?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I suppose I\u2019ve always been a pessimist, but I have every hope this will change.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Working from home: yes or no?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even though I\u2019ve always had the option to work from home, I generally preferred to go into the office and enjoyed having that separation between work and home life. But during the pandemic I\u2019ve found to my great surprise that I really like working from home \u2013 so yes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lake or ocean?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019ve always felt somewhat guilty about not being drawn to the water in the way others seem to be. Although I\u2019ve been all around the British coastline, seen the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Sea of Japan, swum in the Mediterranean, and visited all manner of Bavarian lakes and Scottish lochs, I wouldn\u2019t say I <em>need<\/em> to be near water at all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a good 18 months since our last interviews with Klein Wolf Peters. Quite a lot has happened since then (understatement of the year!). 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