Timeline for Is there a figurative term equivalent to the German idiom "Fingerübung"?
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| Oct 1, 2020 at 12:40 | comment | added | Peter Shor | Even if Duden doesn't have it, Wiktionary gives the figurative (übertragen) meaning of Fingerübung as well as the musical meaning. | |
| Sep 30, 2020 at 19:45 | comment | added | Martin Schröder | Native German here: The musical meaning is rare, the figurative is common. | |
| Sep 29, 2020 at 14:28 | comment | added | Schmuddi | A query in the "Deutsches Referenzkorpus" returns thousands of attestations of Fingerübung in the database. Skimming a random sample of 50 attestations, I found ~40 of them to be used in a clearly figurative sense that has nothing to do with musical practise. It's difficult to reconcile these findings with the premise of your answer that Fingerübung in non-music contexts is awkward even in German. | |
| Sep 29, 2020 at 7:49 | comment | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | I upvoted for the clarification of the Duden entry which is as you say; that is an important correction. I disagree, however, with your impression that a figurative use is "awkward" -- quite the opposite, I find it idiomatic and expressive. But one of the first things I learned here is that there is a wide variety in the language backgrounds people come from and things I found obvious or common were clearly not so for others. | |
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| Sep 28, 2020 at 19:09 | history | answered | Nobody | CC BY-SA 4.0 |