"acte veberien"

[Joel S. Berson]

Neil, my apologies.  I did understand that "veberien" was a typo for
"venerien".  When I wrote "How logical--first the act, then the
disease.  Ich verstehe", I was trying to make two jokes:  (1) A
comment on the order in which the two senses of "venereal" are listed
in the OED:  first, "associated with sexual intercourse", and second,
"communicated by sexual intercourse".  (2) An obscure reference to
Max Weber, who was known for his use of the term "verstehen".

Full disclosure:  I did not know about "verstehen" until I went to
"Verstehen: Max Weber's Home Page": "Weber used the term to refer to
the social scientist's attempt to understand both the intention and
the context of human action."

Joel

At 1/16/2006 05:18 AM, you wrote:
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> > OK.  I give up.  Is "veberien" a typo or is that
> > really the word you wanted to use?  Google turned up
> > 20 hits for "veberien": it appears to be eponymous,
> > but the meaning isn't clear.  "Veber" resultd in
> > 500,00 hits.
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> >> --- "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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> >> How logical--first the act, then the disease.  Ich
> >> verstehe.
> >>
> >> Joel
> >>
>'veberien' was a typo for 'venerien'
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>--Neil
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