Talk:Schreibtisch

@Fay Freak: Ad to your last edit. I wanted to add this clarification because the term schreibtisch was used even for cabinets which does not look like a table at all. I mean even the caskets with drawers which were put ON the table. I came across this thing when working with historic invetories and researched why even so called kunstkasten or kabinettschränke were named schreibtisch. Is the problem, that the sentence is too long? What is a fantasy? I have also found in several native german historians a clear misunderstanding of this term. They thought it was really a table. Dominikmatus (talk) 21:07, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

@Dominikmatus: If it was used for something completely different then it was not discernible from what you wrote. I don’t know what a Kunstkasten is, maybe you want to create and describe it? What I meant with fantasy is that people often separate meanings according to English translations when in the language described the distinction does not exist but it is just a vague superordinate term for many things and at best one could note that difference to English in a usage note instead of in a separate gloss. Still I don’t see what different thing you mean. You can also put a table onto a table, so you have a casket with a drawer put onto a desk called a Schreibtisch. Or if I err here you still didn’t describe what’s the craic. You said “cabinet”, but this term does not ring any bells, what is the essential difference why it is a separate sense, and not a shade of a monolithic large sense? If there is any. Tip: You might add an image and describe peculiarities. Sometimes we have whole galleries with usage notes, as on Neugewürz or بَلَاذُر (balāḏur), another editor often adds description to the sides of pages such as on moccasin; I am not averse to longness but one simply does not get what you mean. Fay Freak (talk) 21:27, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for your explanation. I understand and I will try to apply it. But I have to say I really haven't meant to separate the meaning. My point was, that this meaning is outdated and not used anymore. So people today don't expect something else beside table used for writing. I just checked what some old dictionaries say and I really like the definition "..., also a secure place for storing papers". This could easily mean any cabinet, casket with drawers. Dominikmatus (talk) 21:42, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

@Dominikmatus: Good job. Now one should understand what you mean. Fay Freak (talk) 13:28, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

Good. I'm glad. Thanks for helping. Dominikmatus (talk) 22:30, 26 March 2021 (UTC)