Bizarre
Quirkiness refers to a noticeably unconventional or strange idea, situation, thing, or behavior.
etymology
Bizarreness (older spelling Scurrilität ) is derived from the Latin. Scurrilitas , the buffoonery and also from Scurra , the dandy , jester , buffoon who "usually from the lower classes to have as parasites on tables ... Access by clumsy flattery or bad Jokes ... tried to amuse and often played a very contemptuous role in it ”. Accordingly, the adjective is bizarre (older spelling scurril ): buffoon moderate , possenreißerisch , farcical . Before 1900, the adjective bizarre (or Scurrilisch ) was in use as in the name of the bizarre letters that appeared in Halle in 1769.
The basic meaning of the word has been preserved more clearly in English than in German; scurrility is synonymous with vulgarism (German vulgarity ).
Today's meaning
While bizarreness once stood only for the farce and the tearing of coarse, crude jokes, it is equated today with the oddities , bizarre , eccentric , eccentric , bizarre practices , cranky , opinionated , etc., which as such only when compared with the around it expiring normals can be recognized.
If the bizarre behavior deviates too far from normal behavior - i.e. if the person concerned and / or their environment suffers from this behavior, then - according to Kurt Schneider's criteria - the limit to pathology is exceeded. The transitions are fluid.
Quirkiness per se is not funny or funny, because different people perceive funny or funny very differently. Since bizarreness but is associated to the observer usually with a surprise (detection of an otherness ), it can, analogue to the surprising punch line of a joke, at first curious attention and then an automatic laugh reflex trigger. The representation of absurdities in the media is increasing more and more.
Individual evidence
- ^ FA Heinichen Latin-German School Dictionary . 6th edition. Teubner, Leipzig 1897.
- ↑ J. and. W. Grimm German Dictionary . Volume 10.1, 1902.
- ^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig and Vienna 1896, p. 259.
- ^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . Volume 16. Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig and Vienna 1897, p. 34.
- ^ S. Ganguin, U. Sander: Sensation, absurdity and taboos in the media . Verlag für Sozialwissenschaftler, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 978-3-531-90107-7 .
