Even natural languages have personalities. 'Escapement' is the name of a device, a toothed wheel, that controls the motion of the hands of the clock. The word has connotations of gaining freedom. The German equivalent is 'Hemmung.' It means 'restraint,' and also, 'inhibition.' It conjures up images of of losing freedom. In describing a presumably emotionally neutral gadget, the two languages perceive in its functions two diametrically opposite states of human condition.

J.T. Fraser

Mots clés time clock j-t-fraser voices-of-time

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There ain't no sky,' said one [boy]. But what is it that ain't?' asked the other.

J.T. Fraser

Mots clés time

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