::There is a short story of Peter Bichsel "Ein Tisch ist ein Tisch" ("a table is a table"), which can be found in many German textbooks for high-school pupils: Bichsel describes a man who one day decides to call his ''table'' henceforth a ''carpet'', his ''bed'' a ''picture'', his ''chair'' a ''clock'' and so on. This amuses him for a while, but he get lost in his own language and cannot communicate with others any more. | ::There is a short story of Peter Bichsel "Ein Tisch ist ein Tisch" ("a table is a table"), which can be found in many German textbooks for high-school pupils: Bichsel describes a man who one day decides to call his ''table'' henceforth a ''carpet'', his ''bed'' a ''picture'', his ''chair'' a ''clock'' and so on. This amuses him for a while, but he get lost in his own language and cannot communicate with others any more. |