23:00 Nov 23, 2010
Just a little remark about the association of "Herd" with illness: "Herd" can be used as a metaphor for and in combination with all sorts of things, in the same sense as "incubator" might be used: for nurturing something (usually bad) that develops slowly, growing/spreading from a small centre into something big like a leavened cake. Examples: Feuerherd, Krisenherd, Krankheitsherd. A more precise meaning is added in all these cases by the specifying additional nouns. Illness is not implied in the metaphor "Herd" as such and I don't see it implied in this text. Even if I mentioned "Brutstätte" as an example, I would avoid using anything indicating "illness" in a political context. |