The vocabulary of made things

Wertarbeit — value-work. Craftsmanship, but the compound names the value rather than the craft.

Qualitätsarbeit, Wertigkeit, solide, gediegen — four more German words of approval for a made thing, and none of them is about appearance.

Billig und schlecht — cheap and bad, spoken as a single phrase, as though the two were the same observation.

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