Matteo Menardi Ménego
“Higher than actuality stands possibility”
— Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, §7
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10.09.2026 · 12.08.2026
AI: the limited alien intelligence
Definitions and lies that mountains do not tell.
10.09.2026
AI: the limited alien intelligence
Dovrete aspettare e, nel frattempo, riflettere sulle parole di Han Kang, tradotte così da Milena Zemira Ciccimarra:
<<Quanto è difficile per noi restare umani, qualunque cosa accada? Nella notte più buia il linguaggio ci chiede di cosa siamo fatti, insiste sulla necessità di immaginare i tanti punti di vista delle persone e degli esseri viventi che abitano questo pianeta; il linguaggio ci collega gli uni agli altri. La letteratura, che si fonda sul linguaggio, possiede inevitabilmente una sorta di calore corporeo. E, altrettanto inevitabilmente, leggere e scrivere letteratura vuol dire opporsi ad ogni atto che distrugga la vita.>>
You will both have to wait for me and in the meantime reflect on Han Kang’s words, which I hereby render in English, translating myself Milena Zemira Ciccimarra’s Italian original:
<< How tough is it for us to remain humans, no matter what happens? In the darkest of all obscurities language asks us what we are made of and stresses the need for us to make the many viewpoints of all peoples and creatures that live on this planet earth our own. Language binds each one of us to one another. Literature unavoidably radiates one kind of body warmth, because it builds on language bits. In the very same inevitable manner the creature who reads books and writes literature is an activist fighting against all acts that may eradicate life.>>
Ihr werdet auf mich warten müssen und über die Worte von Han Kang nachdenken. So darf ich die aus dem Italienischen von Milena Zemira Ciccimarra vortragen:
<<Wie schwierig ist es denn für uns Menschen, menschlich zu bleiben, egal was passiert? In der dunkelsten Zeit fragt uns die Sprache, woraus wir bestehen. Sie hält den Punkt, dass die vielen Perspektiven der Menschen und Lebewesen auf dieser Erde unseres Vorstellungsvermögens bedürfen; sie verbindet uns alle miteinander. Die von der Sprache gestiftete Literatur hat notwendigerweise eine gewisse körperliche Wärme in sich. Ebenfalls notwendigerweise sind Bücherlesen und Literaturschreiben ein Akt, der sich dem, was das Vernichten vom Leben angeht, querstellt.>>
12.08.2026
Definitions and lies that mountains do not tell.
“Sole” in lingua tedesca si esprime al femminile come “die Sonne”. In “ladino antico” “Suredl” si riferiva proprio alla nostra stella, mentre in ladino ampezzano si parla di “soróio” e, volendo precisare, “soróio” e “suredl” derivano dalla stessa radice comune. Entrambe le varianti sono infatti il risultato dell’adattamento nel corso dei secoli della radice latina “sol”.
Insomma, Suredl conferì la forma femminile evocativa del sole, mentre Sörls, toponimo di origine romanza attestato fin dal quindicesimo secolo, fu la base di partenza per il toponimo attuale Die Serles. La targa al Serlesjöchl mi propose quel giorno proprio questa interpretazione. La accolsi così come mi si presentò.
The mount Serles, German “Die Serles”, gets its name secondarily from the ancient Ladin word “suredl”, meaning sun. The sun is also a feminine noun in German as in “Die Sonne”. In Ampezzano Ladin our sun is named “soróio”, with an evident similarity to ancient Ladin “suredl”. Both words come from the same Latin root “sol”. Interestingly enough, Suredl came to be the evocative form for sun, but “Sörls”, a noun that originated from a Romance matrix and had served in written form as main toponym since the 15th century, gave the most logical imprinting to the lemma Serles.
The information board at the Serlesjöchl presented me that day with exactly this interpretation. I accepted it as it showed itself to me.
Der Begriff „Sonne“ wird mit einem femininen Genus im Deutschen geknüpft. Auf Ladinisch hieß es über Jahrhunderte „Suredl“, während unser Stern als „soróio“ in Anpezo-Cortina d’Ampezzo übertragen wird. In aller Klarheit, stammen „soróio“ und „suredl“ aus der gleichen Wurzel und zwar der klassischen lateinischen Wurzel „sol“. „Suredl“ gab diese Einprägung und den Bezug auf die Sonne weiter, während das im 15. Jahrhundert etablierte romanische Toponym „Sörl“ die finale Form der Serles beeinflusste. Die Tafel am Serlesjöchl legte mir an jenem Tag genau diese Deutung vor. Ich nahm sie an, wie sie sich mir zeigte.
Aber fokussieren wir uns einmal auf jenen sagenumwobenen Dienstag und jenem Sommertag voller Sonne und leeren Wolken. Als Sprachmittler und Übersetzer, der sich mit einer neuen Umgebung auseinandersetzte, fand ich diesen etymologischen Fall besonders relevant.