The title of the work, “Ungereimtes” (without rhyme), is ambiguous. On the one hand the word is used in the sense of ‘forming no rhyme’, on the other hand it stands for something that ‘makes no right sense, is confused’.

“Ungereimtes” deals with the meaning of the pictorial in our language (spoken and written) and in our thinking. We know that language and thought are connected in many ways, regardless of the fact that in certain contexts thought may be possible without the use of language.

The question remains whether thinking in these contexts is possible without images – I do not think so. The psychology of language and thought investigates the connections between the different aspects of language and the different ways of thinking, but there is still a lot that is “unsettled”.

To make things easier for those who are unfamiliar with the international phonetic alphabet or who may not know it at all, here is the re-transformation into the source language. In the case of phonemic pictures whose source language is not English, a translation into English is also carried out.