Neugier

"In BT falling is introduced by way of an account of the further career of assertion. Assertions are essentially communicable to others. The originator of the assertion makes it in the presence of the entities that the assertion is about. But as the assertion is passed on from one person to another, it is accepted by people who are unfamiliar with the original evidence for it, but who accept it and pass it on to others simply because it is what 'they' say. Talk (Rede) has become idle talk or chatter (Gerede). A close relative of chatter is curiosity, the German word for which, Neugier, means literally 'lust for novelty'. The inquisitive chatterbox is constantly on the lookout for the latest news. One sees and reads what 'one' or 'they' has to have seen and read. Chatter and curiosity give rise to ambiguity or duplicity - the German Zweideutigkeit has both meanings. When everyone chatters about everything there is no way of telling who really understands what except perhaps that someone who is really onto something does not chatter about it. Questions are presented as settled when they are really open. But ambiguity and duplicity also infects our relations with one another: 'Under the mask of "for-one-another", an 'againstone-another" is in play' (BT, 175)."

Inwood, 2000, pág, 52.

INWOOD, M. (2000) Heidegger a Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press