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Es war, als hätt’ der Himmel

die Erde still geküsst,

dass sie im Blütenschimmer

von ihm nun träumen müsst.

The European languages are members of the same family. Their separate existence is a myth. For science, music, sport, etc, Europe uses the same vocabulary. The languages only differ in their grammar, their pronunciation and their most common words. Everyone realizes why a new common language would be desirable: one could refuse to pay expensive translators. To achieve this, it would be necessary to have uniform grammar, pronunciation and more common words. If several languages coalesce, the grammar of the resulting language is more simple and regular than that of the individual languages. The new common language will be more simple and regular than the existing European languages. It will be as simple as Occidental; in fact, it will be Occidental. To an English person, it will seem like simplified English, as a skeptical Cambridge friend of mine told me what Occidental is. The European languages are members of the same family. Their separate existence is a myth. For science, music, sport, etc, Europe uses the same vocabulary. The languages only differ in their grammar, their pronunciation and their most common words. Everyone realizes why a new common language would be desirable: one could refuse to pay expensive translators. To achieve this, it would be necessary to have uniform grammar, pronunciation and more common words. If several languages coalesce, the grammar of the resulting language is more simple and regular than that of the individual languages. The new common language will be more simple and regular than the existing European languages. It will be as simple as Occidental; in fact, it will be Occidental. To an English person, it will seem like simplified English, as a skeptical Cambridge friend of mine told me what Occidental is. The European languages are members of the same family.

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Auch gibt es niemanden, der den Schmerz an sich liebt, sucht oder wünscht, nur, weil er Schmerz ist, es sei denn, es kommt zu zufälligen Umständen, in denen Mühen und Schmerz ihm große Freude bereiten können. Um ein triviales Beispiel zu nehmen, wer von uns unterzieht sich je anstrengender körperlicher Betätigung, außer um Vorteile daraus zu ziehen? Aber wer hat irgend ein Recht, einen Menschen zu tadeln, der die Entscheidung trifft, eine Freude zu genießen, die keine unangenehmen Folgen hat, oder einen, der Schmerz vermeidet, welcher keine daraus resultierende Freude nach sich zieht? Auch gibt es niemanden, der den Schmerz an sich liebt, sucht oder wünscht, nur, weil er Schmerz ist, es sei denn, es kommt zu zufälligen Umständen, in denen Mühen und Schmerz ihm große Freude bereiten können. Um ein triviales Beispiel zu nehmen, wer von uns unterzieht sich je anstrengender körperlicher Betätigung, außer um Vorteile daraus zu ziehen? Aber wer hat irgend ein Recht, einen Menschen zu tadeln, der die Entscheidung trifft, eine Freude zu genießen, die keine unangenehmen Folgen hat, oder einen, der Schmerz vermeidet, welcher keine daraus resultierende Freude nach sich zieht? Auch gibt es niemanden, der den Schmerz an sich liebt, sucht oder wünscht, nur, weil er Schmerz ist, es sei denn, es kommt zu zufälligen Umständen, in denen Mühen und Schmerz ihm große Freude bereiten können. Um ein triviales Beispiel zu nehmen, wer von uns unterzieht sich je anstrengender körperlicher Betätigung, außer um Vorteile daraus zu ziehen? Aber wer hat irgend ein Recht, einen Menschen zu tadeln, der die Entscheidung trifft, eine Freude zu genießen, die keine unangenehmen Folgen hat, oder einen, der Schmerz vermeidet, welcher keine daraus resultierende Freude nach sich zieht? Auch gibt es niemanden, der den Schmerz an sich liebt, sucht oder wünscht, nur, weil er Schmerz ist, es sei denn, es kommt zu zufälligen Umständen, in denen Mühen und Schmerz ihm große Freude bereiten können. Um ein triviales Beispiel zu nehmen, wer von uns unterzieht sich je anstrengender körperlicher Betätigung, außer um Vorteile daraus zu ziehen? Aber wer hat irgend ein Recht, einen Menschen zu tadeln, der die Entscheidung trifft, eine Freude zu genießen, die keine unangenehmen Folgen hat, oder einen, der Schmerz vermeidet, welcher keine daraus resultierende Freude nach sich zieht?

But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure? On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains. But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness.

Dies ist ein Typoblindtext. An ihm kann man sehen, ob alle Buchstaben da sind und wie sie aussehen. Manchmal benutzt man Worte wie Hamburgefonts, Rafgenduks oder Handgloves, um Schriften zu testen. Manchmal Sätze, die alle Buchstaben des Alphabets enthalten – man nennt diese Sätze »Pangrams«. Sehr bekannt ist dieser: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy old dog. Oft werden in Typoblindtexte auch fremdsprachige Satzteile eingebaut (AVAIL® and Wefox™ are testing aussi la Kerning), um die Wirkung in anderen Sprachen zu testen. In Lateinisch sieht zum Beispiel fast jede Schrift gut aus. Quod erat demonstrandum. Seit 1975 fehlen in den meisten Testtexten die Zahlen, weswegen nach TypoGb. 204 § ab dem Jahr 2034 Zahlen in 86 der Texte zur Pflicht werden. Nichteinhaltung wird mit bis zu 245 € oder 368 $ bestraft. Genauso wichtig in sind mittlerweile auch Âçcèñtë, die in neueren Schriften aber fast immer enthalten sind. Ein wichtiges aber schwierig zu integrierendes Feld sind OpenType-Funktionalitäten. Je nach Software und Voreinstellungen können eingebaute Kapitälchen, Kerning oder Ligaturen (sehr pfiffig) nicht richtig dargestellt werden. Dies ist ein Typoblindtext. An ihm kann man sehen, ob alle Buchstaben da sind und wie sie aussehen. Manchmal benutzt man Worte wie Hamburgefonts, Rafgenduks oder Handgloves, um Schriften zu testen. Manchmal Sätze, die alle Buchstaben des Alphabets enthalten – man nennt diese Sätze »Pangrams«. Sehr bekannt ist dieser: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy old dog. Oft werden in Typoblindtexte auch fremdsprachige Satzteile eingebaut (AVAIL® and Wefox™ are testing aussi la Kerning), um die Wirkung in anderen Sprachen zu testen. In Lateinisch sieht zum Beispiel fast jede Schrift gut aus. Quod erat demonstrandum. Seit 1975 fehlen in den meisten Testtexten die Zahlen, weswegen nach TypoGb. 204 § ab dem Jahr 2034 Zahlen in 86 der Texte zur Pflicht werden. Nichteinhaltung wird mit bis zu 245 € oder 368 $ bestraft. Genauso wichtig in sind mittlerweile auch Âçcèñtë, die in neueren Schriften aber fast immer enthalten sind.

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One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked. “What’s happened to me?” he thought. It wasn’t a dream. His room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table – Samsa was a travelling salesman – and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer. Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel quite sad. “How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense”, he thought, but that was something he was unable to do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present state couldn’t get into that position. However hard he threw himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he wouldn’t have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt before.

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth. Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar. The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli, but the Little Blind Text didn’t listen. She packed her seven versalia, put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way. When she reached the first hills of the Italic Mountains, she had a last view back on the skyline of her hometown Bookmarksgrove, the headline of Alphabet Village and the subline of her own road, the Line Lane. Pityful a rethoric question ran over her cheek, then she continued her way. On her way she met a copy. The copy warned the Little Blind Text, that where it came from it would have been rewritten a thousand times and everything that was left from its origin would be the word “and” and the Little Blind Text should turn around and return to its own, safe country.