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Policeman edit
Policeman and sculptor (artist) is a very unusual combination. Wasn't he a policeman first and then a sculptor, or was he both throughout his early career? I would like to phrase it as "policeman turned artist". Jmar67 (talk) 19:47, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
- He was a policeman until he retired as such. Some day, when I have more time, I'll find it in the sources. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:50, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
IPA edit
The first syllable in Wächter is short (the second anyway). I changed, but please check. I looked at the German IPA, and must say that I doubt much of it, most of all the English analogies. German "hei" and English "high" sound completely different to me, and I don't any better analogy, - perhaps better no analogy than misleading. Same for "wau" and "vow". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:50, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
- Yes, again something I should have seen. Do not understand your examples: they seem valid to me. Jmar67 (talk) 21:06, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
- Hard to describe. The way I hear "high" is staying long on some "a" sound, switching to "ee" late. The German "a" is much shorter. Same for the other. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:33, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
- I see. But the column is titled "English approximation", allowing a little leeway. Jmar67 (talk) 21:43, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
- (ec) "nice" seems closer than "high", and "couch" closer than "cow". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:45, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
- German pronunciation is more disciplined. That may be what you are alluding to. At any rate, I think the IPA may help to placate those who object to German titles. That was also one of my considerations. Jmar67 (talk) 22:00, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
- Still, can you tell me if you hear a difference in vowel between "nice" and "high"? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:17, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
- German pronunciation is more disciplined. That may be what you are alluding to. At any rate, I think the IPA may help to placate those who object to German titles. That was also one of my considerations. Jmar67 (talk) 22:00, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
- (ec) "nice" seems closer than "high", and "couch" closer than "cow". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:45, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
- I see. But the column is titled "English approximation", allowing a little leeway. Jmar67 (talk) 21:43, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
- Hard to describe. The way I hear "high" is staying long on some "a" sound, switching to "ee" late. The German "a" is much shorter. Same for the other. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:33, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
Environment edit
"One of them "guards against" a change in the environment", - sorry, I must have written it wrong if that is understood. Former brown coal mining was given back to nature, and the Wächter watch over that environment. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:54, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
Series? edit
I doubt that the installations at different locations can be called a series. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:29, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
- Wächter is more a recurring topic of his work Grimes2 (talk) 18:35, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
- That's what I had, but it was changed. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:46, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
- To me, the article focuses (or should focus) on the objects, not the "topic". I have restored the original wording as "recurring theme". "Series" seems appropriate to describe multiple installations in varying locations. Jmar67 (talk) 20:12, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
- To me, a series would have to come with a plan. I don't know if Monet's waterlilies would be a "series", - I doubt it. The faces by Jawlensky perhaps? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:52, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
- To me, the article focuses (or should focus) on the objects, not the "topic". I have restored the original wording as "recurring theme". "Series" seems appropriate to describe multiple installations in varying locations. Jmar67 (talk) 20:12, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
- That's what I had, but it was changed. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:46, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
You may be right that the English "series" has a different meaning than the German "de:Serie" and could be just "Folge". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:55, 19 May 2019 (UTC)