Am 03.03.2015 um 00:42 schrieb Doctor John:
> Thanks for that. Effectively, it would seem that the writer of the
> report has as incomplete an understanding of German as I have - I can
> get by, but a serious intellectual conversation would be beyond me. I
> have a feeling that she, a recent graduate, was trying to show off her
> erudition.

Maybe, maybe. Depends on what the word "erudition" actually means :P

> I was aware of the word 'Weltbild' but had wrongly assumed that it and
> Merkwelt were interchangeable. I should have realised that German is too
> precise a language to allow for redundancy. Mea culpa, mea culpa.

Don't worry; it may come as a surprise to you, but even German has the 
word "Vergebung" ;)

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