No wonder she's always had a thing about verbal expression.

Veronika's first words 〰 spoken at the age of one 〰 baffled her elders.

'She can't possibly know what she's saying,' they thought.

They were right.

At three she was busy learning three languages by osmosis 〰 Arabic, English, and German.

At ten 〰 on her first visit to the Valley of the Pharaos in Upper Egypt 〰 she received a book on Hieroglyphics and promptly immersed herself in studying the ancient script.

At twenty, she signed up for a course in Semitic Languages at the Freie Universität Berlin. After navigating various language related courses at various universities, she earned a degree in Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies from Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz.

Following a successful career as a freelance translator 〰 with 20+ books published in various languages 〰 the native stream of verbal expression sprung up in the undergrowth of her creative mind 〰 fed into a wide range of writing projects 〰 and eventually sprouted Symbiopaedia 〰 the wild-word-woods for stray verbionts and wildwordlings.

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about the symbiotope

The symbiotope of Symbiopædia was created to provide a home for words.

Not just any words 〰 young, old or departed 〰 but specifically words who are symbionts for the Symbiocene. Words who claim their identity, live their own lives and share their verbilectable gifts.

Symbiocene is the new era which humans are capable of inhabiting, if we reach beyond the Anthropocene horizon. Symbiocene words may not look any different from their Anthropocene relations. The difference often lies in their implicit meaning.

Having said that, some Symbiocene words can look pretty wild, especially at first sight. We may have to get used to one another.

In the Anthropocene, humans experience time and space as separate from each other. In the Symbiocene there is no distinction between time and space. We live in a spacetime continuum.

A statement like, ‘once the Symbiocene has arrived, we will live in a spacetime continuum', is a typical expression of the Anthropocene mind.

The Symbiocene mind might say instead, ‘to live in the Symbiocene we can bring the spacetime continuum into our presence right now.’

The words on this page are in transition from the Anthropocene to the Symbiocene.

Because it's much easier to get clearer about what we mean, let's make this a conversation

[from Latin con = together + vertere = to turn] 〰 rather than a monologue.

Because we can only turn our world of words around together.