Five Necessary German Nouns*
Schmerzescheissekandynacht
The late-night sadness of seeing from 20 paces that the office candy jar has been refilled with despised black licorice, when the planned high point of one’s day was grabbing a handful of Werther’s butterscotch to eat in the elevator on the way down to the underground bike parking cage—a sadness compounded by the knowledge that nobody else likes the black licorice either, so it will be there for many nights to come.
Freudentelefonikageist
The small moment of delight in getting voicemail, not a person.
Schadenbloggenstille
The disappointment of checking one’s RSS reader to note that one has not updated one’s own blog.
Kumulusverklempt
The strong desire to bounce on, roll around in, and possible eat, the bed of fluffy clouds beneath one on an airplane.
Kinodietrichzeit
The inability to enjoy a movie until one has established who that character reminds one of.
*Crediting the great Merlin Mann.
Saturday, March 11th 2006 at 8:29 pm
Keinedervalaneuenblogeintragungen:
The aching emptiness one can only experience from visiting dervala.net for the fifteenth straight day, only to discover there is no new Wortfreude to behold.
Magischereisevondervala:
The joyful-anticipation which abruptly and fleetlingly strikes readers of Dervala’s blog the moment they discover a new Wortfreude, but, before they have begun to read it.
(Wortfreude — word-joy; because your writing surely puts a smile on the faces of your readers)
[all credit to Google’s translation service ;-)]
I thank you. L.
Saturday, March 11th 2006 at 9:49 pm
And then there’s Antivereinigenstaatensconstitutionenspirituosenwarenhaendler, or bootlegger.