Language: German<\/h2>\n![](\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/var\/question\/q\/q9\/q99\/q998\/q9983\/q9983544_2170649_680_hangover\"\/)
<\/div>\nIf you\u2019ve ever gone out drinking, and I mean really drinking, and then totally regretted that decision in the morning, katzenhammer is the word for you. Simply put, katzenhammer is a hangover so epic that you are left to wonder why the universe hates you so much. A hangover so epic that the sound of a car passing by your home has the same effect on your brain as a sonic jet screaming overhead. This is a hangover so bad that if it were a person, it would be able to punch the peak off of a mountain; whereas a regular \u201changover\u201d couldn\u2019t snap a twig. <\/p>\n
In short, it\u2019s a hangover you wouldn\u2019t even want to wish on your worst enemy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nWord: Dohada<\/h2>\nLanguage: Sanskrit <\/h2>\n![](\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/var\/question\/q\/q9\/q99\/q998\/q9983\/q9983544_2170649_709_pregnancy-food-aversions\"\/)
<\/div>\nThe closest we come to Dohada in English is \u201ccravings.\u201d Sadly, to get the full feel for the strength of the word you have to add a bunch of other words in front of \u201ccravings.\u201d Something like \u201cabsolutely ridiculous crazy-pants cravings\u201d; specifically, for pregnant woman. <\/p>\n
So, if you\u2019ve ever had a pregnant wife who, at 3 in the morning, asked you for a bologna sandwich with gummy bears and a leaf off of the palm tree in the back yard\u2026and she wants you to replace the bread with 2 t-bone steaks, then that\u2019s Dohada.<\/p>\n
\nWord: Schadenfreude<\/h2>\nLanguage: German<\/h2>\n![](\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/var\/question\/q\/q9\/q99\/q998\/q9983\/q9983544_2170649_733_schadenfreude\"\/)
<\/div>\nOkay, this is where we get in to the territory of weird human reactions that make us both distinctly human, and distantly insane.\u00a0\u00a0And sick. And twisted. You know, all of those things that aliens hovering around out in space are entertained by. <\/p>\n
Let\u2019s start off with a couple of words we\u2019ve all probably heard: Sadism and Masochism. Sadism is deriving joy and pleasure from inflicting pain on someone. Masochism is the opposite \u2013 it\u2019s enjoying the pain being inflicted upon you. These are two very stark (and dark) extremes in human nature. But did you know that the Germans came up with a world that is a middle ground between the two, that still manages to retain all of the darkness of the two extremes? That word is Schadenfreude, and it\u2019s all about deriving pleasure and joy while watching someone else in pain.
\n\u00a0\u00a0
\nDirectly translated, the word means \u201cJoy in Damage.\u201d The big difference between Schadenfreude and Sadism is that with sadism, the joy you are feeling comes from your direct involvement in the pain your dishing out. With Schadenfreude, you have nothing to do with the pain someone else feels. You\u2019re just a casual observer that is tickled pink by someone locking their keys in their car, or going through a bad breakup, or a politician getting caught in a scandal. <\/p>\n
\nWord: Esprit De L\u2019Escalier <\/h2>\nLanguage: French <\/h2>\n![](\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/var\/question\/q\/q9\/q99\/q998\/q9983\/q9983544_2170649_809_song-chart-memes-good-comeback\"\/)
<\/div>\nSo you\u2019re face-to-face with that guy in your office that you can\u2019t stand. You both get in to a small argument that\u2019s ready to explode. You\u2019re both feeling it out, looking for the proper moment to strike with a powerful verbal comeback that will ravage the other guy’s entire argument and send it crashing to the floor. <\/p>\n
But, then\u2026he says that one thing. That one thing that you can\u2019t defend against. \u201cBlah Blah Blah!!\u201d he says. Everyone around it is shocked. They can\u2019t believe he said that. He got you good. Now, it\u2019s your turn. If you come back with something good, you win. So your brain races.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s scrambling. It might have something\u2026maybe\u2026sort of\u2026no. No. No. You\u2019ve got nothing. You have no comeback. You\u2019re a laughingstock. This guy just made a fool out of you and you just stood there and took it.<\/p>\n
Hours later, you\u2019re on the subway on the way home. To any onlooker, you\u2019re just a young guy or gal bored out of their mind and staring out in to space; slowly rocking back and forth with the track\u2019s many bumps and shifts. But then\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, yeah? So\u2019s your face!!\u201d you randomly yell out. <\/p>\n
Everyone around you is lucky they all brought their mace that afternoon, because, to them, you\u2019re the definition of crazy. But what they don\u2019t know is that you just had a moment of Esprit De L\u2019Escalie. Literally translated, \u201cthe spirit in the staircase.\u201d It\u2019s when you are publically insulted and only come up with the perfect comeback after you\u2019ve left the situation. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s a \u201cspirit\u201d because it could haunt you for the rest of your life.<\/p>\n
\nWord: Blita Mpash<\/h2>\n\nLanguage: Bantu<\/h2>\n![](\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/var\/question\/q\/q9\/q99\/q998\/q9983\/q9983544_2170649_844_girlsleeping\"\/)
<\/div>\nWhen you wake up in the middle of the night screaming and covered in sweat, hoping that you\u2019re not actually being chased by a giant donut with razor-sharp teeth and with the voice of your high school bully, you\u2019re having what\u2019s commonly known as a nightmare.<\/p>\n
But what if it\u2019s the opposite? If you wake up in the middle of the night feeling a little\u2026happy? What if you had some nighttime mental pictures of really nice, very sweet things?. A dream that just makes you feel good about yourself, and not thank your lucky stars that you laid down a plastic sheet before you hit the hay. In English, we don\u2019t really have a word for \u201cgood\u201d dreams. We have “nightmare” for the bad, scary ones; and the word \u201cdream\u201d is just a general term for all of the pictures we see in your heads while we sleep. The closest there is is a word in the Bantu language that means a \u201clegendary, blissful state where all is forgiven and forgotten.\u201d <\/p>\n
Sounds pleasant, doesn\u2019t?![](\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Blurtit\/~4\/WqNANMwzQKU\")
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Words. Without them we\u2019d all be really, really good at charades. And we probably wouldn\u2019t have gotten this far as a society. What moved us further ahead was our ability to understand one-another’s idea\u2019s across the language barrier. By learning about the experience and culture of others through passing their words through a filter that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
If you\u2019ve ever gone out drinking, and I mean really drinking, and then totally regretted that decision in the morning, katzenhammer is the word for you. Simply put, katzenhammer is a hangover so epic that you are left to wonder why the universe hates you so much. A hangover so epic that the sound of a car passing by your home has the same effect on your brain as a sonic jet screaming overhead. This is a hangover so bad that if it were a person, it would be able to punch the peak off of a mountain; whereas a regular \u201changover\u201d couldn\u2019t snap a twig. <\/p>\n
In short, it\u2019s a hangover you wouldn\u2019t even want to wish on your worst enemy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n
Word: Dohada<\/h2>\nLanguage: Sanskrit <\/h2>\n<\/div>\nThe closest we come to Dohada in English is \u201ccravings.\u201d Sadly, to get the full feel for the strength of the word you have to add a bunch of other words in front of \u201ccravings.\u201d Something like \u201cabsolutely ridiculous crazy-pants cravings\u201d; specifically, for pregnant woman. <\/p>\n
So, if you\u2019ve ever had a pregnant wife who, at 3 in the morning, asked you for a bologna sandwich with gummy bears and a leaf off of the palm tree in the back yard\u2026and she wants you to replace the bread with 2 t-bone steaks, then that\u2019s Dohada.<\/p>\n
\nWord: Schadenfreude<\/h2>\nLanguage: German<\/h2>\n<\/div>\nOkay, this is where we get in to the territory of weird human reactions that make us both distinctly human, and distantly insane.\u00a0\u00a0And sick. And twisted. You know, all of those things that aliens hovering around out in space are entertained by. <\/p>\n
Let\u2019s start off with a couple of words we\u2019ve all probably heard: Sadism and Masochism. Sadism is deriving joy and pleasure from inflicting pain on someone. Masochism is the opposite \u2013 it\u2019s enjoying the pain being inflicted upon you. These are two very stark (and dark) extremes in human nature. But did you know that the Germans came up with a world that is a middle ground between the two, that still manages to retain all of the darkness of the two extremes? That word is Schadenfreude, and it\u2019s all about deriving pleasure and joy while watching someone else in pain.
\n\u00a0\u00a0
\nDirectly translated, the word means \u201cJoy in Damage.\u201d The big difference between Schadenfreude and Sadism is that with sadism, the joy you are feeling comes from your direct involvement in the pain your dishing out. With Schadenfreude, you have nothing to do with the pain someone else feels. You\u2019re just a casual observer that is tickled pink by someone locking their keys in their car, or going through a bad breakup, or a politician getting caught in a scandal. <\/p>\n
\nWord: Esprit De L\u2019Escalier <\/h2>\nLanguage: French <\/h2>\n<\/div>\nSo you\u2019re face-to-face with that guy in your office that you can\u2019t stand. You both get in to a small argument that\u2019s ready to explode. You\u2019re both feeling it out, looking for the proper moment to strike with a powerful verbal comeback that will ravage the other guy’s entire argument and send it crashing to the floor. <\/p>\n
But, then\u2026he says that one thing. That one thing that you can\u2019t defend against. \u201cBlah Blah Blah!!\u201d he says. Everyone around it is shocked. They can\u2019t believe he said that. He got you good. Now, it\u2019s your turn. If you come back with something good, you win. So your brain races.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s scrambling. It might have something\u2026maybe\u2026sort of\u2026no. No. No. You\u2019ve got nothing. You have no comeback. You\u2019re a laughingstock. This guy just made a fool out of you and you just stood there and took it.<\/p>\n
Hours later, you\u2019re on the subway on the way home. To any onlooker, you\u2019re just a young guy or gal bored out of their mind and staring out in to space; slowly rocking back and forth with the track\u2019s many bumps and shifts. But then\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, yeah? So\u2019s your face!!\u201d you randomly yell out. <\/p>\n
Everyone around you is lucky they all brought their mace that afternoon, because, to them, you\u2019re the definition of crazy. But what they don\u2019t know is that you just had a moment of Esprit De L\u2019Escalie. Literally translated, \u201cthe spirit in the staircase.\u201d It\u2019s when you are publically insulted and only come up with the perfect comeback after you\u2019ve left the situation. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s a \u201cspirit\u201d because it could haunt you for the rest of your life.<\/p>\n
\nWord: Blita Mpash<\/h2>\n\nLanguage: Bantu<\/h2>\n<\/div>\nWhen you wake up in the middle of the night screaming and covered in sweat, hoping that you\u2019re not actually being chased by a giant donut with razor-sharp teeth and with the voice of your high school bully, you\u2019re having what\u2019s commonly known as a nightmare.<\/p>\n
But what if it\u2019s the opposite? If you wake up in the middle of the night feeling a little\u2026happy? What if you had some nighttime mental pictures of really nice, very sweet things?. A dream that just makes you feel good about yourself, and not thank your lucky stars that you laid down a plastic sheet before you hit the hay. In English, we don\u2019t really have a word for \u201cgood\u201d dreams. We have “nightmare” for the bad, scary ones; and the word \u201cdream\u201d is just a general term for all of the pictures we see in your heads while we sleep. The closest there is is a word in the Bantu language that means a \u201clegendary, blissful state where all is forgiven and forgotten.\u201d <\/p>\n
Sounds pleasant, doesn\u2019t?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Words. Without them we\u2019d all be really, really good at charades. And we probably wouldn\u2019t have gotten this far as a society. What moved us further ahead was our ability to understand one-another’s idea\u2019s across the language barrier. By learning about the experience and culture of others through passing their words through a filter that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The closest we come to Dohada in English is \u201ccravings.\u201d Sadly, to get the full feel for the strength of the word you have to add a bunch of other words in front of \u201ccravings.\u201d Something like \u201cabsolutely ridiculous crazy-pants cravings\u201d; specifically, for pregnant woman. <\/p>\n
So, if you\u2019ve ever had a pregnant wife who, at 3 in the morning, asked you for a bologna sandwich with gummy bears and a leaf off of the palm tree in the back yard\u2026and she wants you to replace the bread with 2 t-bone steaks, then that\u2019s Dohada.<\/p>\n
\n
Word: Schadenfreude<\/h2>\nLanguage: German<\/h2>\n<\/div>\nOkay, this is where we get in to the territory of weird human reactions that make us both distinctly human, and distantly insane.\u00a0\u00a0And sick. And twisted. You know, all of those things that aliens hovering around out in space are entertained by. <\/p>\n
Let\u2019s start off with a couple of words we\u2019ve all probably heard: Sadism and Masochism. Sadism is deriving joy and pleasure from inflicting pain on someone. Masochism is the opposite \u2013 it\u2019s enjoying the pain being inflicted upon you. These are two very stark (and dark) extremes in human nature. But did you know that the Germans came up with a world that is a middle ground between the two, that still manages to retain all of the darkness of the two extremes? That word is Schadenfreude, and it\u2019s all about deriving pleasure and joy while watching someone else in pain.
\n\u00a0\u00a0
\nDirectly translated, the word means \u201cJoy in Damage.\u201d The big difference between Schadenfreude and Sadism is that with sadism, the joy you are feeling comes from your direct involvement in the pain your dishing out. With Schadenfreude, you have nothing to do with the pain someone else feels. You\u2019re just a casual observer that is tickled pink by someone locking their keys in their car, or going through a bad breakup, or a politician getting caught in a scandal. <\/p>\n
\nWord: Esprit De L\u2019Escalier <\/h2>\nLanguage: French <\/h2>\n<\/div>\nSo you\u2019re face-to-face with that guy in your office that you can\u2019t stand. You both get in to a small argument that\u2019s ready to explode. You\u2019re both feeling it out, looking for the proper moment to strike with a powerful verbal comeback that will ravage the other guy’s entire argument and send it crashing to the floor. <\/p>\n
But, then\u2026he says that one thing. That one thing that you can\u2019t defend against. \u201cBlah Blah Blah!!\u201d he says. Everyone around it is shocked. They can\u2019t believe he said that. He got you good. Now, it\u2019s your turn. If you come back with something good, you win. So your brain races.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s scrambling. It might have something\u2026maybe\u2026sort of\u2026no. No. No. You\u2019ve got nothing. You have no comeback. You\u2019re a laughingstock. This guy just made a fool out of you and you just stood there and took it.<\/p>\n
Hours later, you\u2019re on the subway on the way home. To any onlooker, you\u2019re just a young guy or gal bored out of their mind and staring out in to space; slowly rocking back and forth with the track\u2019s many bumps and shifts. But then\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, yeah? So\u2019s your face!!\u201d you randomly yell out. <\/p>\n
Everyone around you is lucky they all brought their mace that afternoon, because, to them, you\u2019re the definition of crazy. But what they don\u2019t know is that you just had a moment of Esprit De L\u2019Escalie. Literally translated, \u201cthe spirit in the staircase.\u201d It\u2019s when you are publically insulted and only come up with the perfect comeback after you\u2019ve left the situation. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s a \u201cspirit\u201d because it could haunt you for the rest of your life.<\/p>\n
\nWord: Blita Mpash<\/h2>\n\nLanguage: Bantu<\/h2>\n<\/div>\nWhen you wake up in the middle of the night screaming and covered in sweat, hoping that you\u2019re not actually being chased by a giant donut with razor-sharp teeth and with the voice of your high school bully, you\u2019re having what\u2019s commonly known as a nightmare.<\/p>\n
But what if it\u2019s the opposite? If you wake up in the middle of the night feeling a little\u2026happy? What if you had some nighttime mental pictures of really nice, very sweet things?. A dream that just makes you feel good about yourself, and not thank your lucky stars that you laid down a plastic sheet before you hit the hay. In English, we don\u2019t really have a word for \u201cgood\u201d dreams. We have “nightmare” for the bad, scary ones; and the word \u201cdream\u201d is just a general term for all of the pictures we see in your heads while we sleep. The closest there is is a word in the Bantu language that means a \u201clegendary, blissful state where all is forgiven and forgotten.\u201d <\/p>\n
Sounds pleasant, doesn\u2019t?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Words. Without them we\u2019d all be really, really good at charades. And we probably wouldn\u2019t have gotten this far as a society. What moved us further ahead was our ability to understand one-another’s idea\u2019s across the language barrier. By learning about the experience and culture of others through passing their words through a filter that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Okay, this is where we get in to the territory of weird human reactions that make us both distinctly human, and distantly insane.\u00a0\u00a0And sick. And twisted. You know, all of those things that aliens hovering around out in space are entertained by. <\/p>\n
Let\u2019s start off with a couple of words we\u2019ve all probably heard: Sadism and Masochism. Sadism is deriving joy and pleasure from inflicting pain on someone. Masochism is the opposite \u2013 it\u2019s enjoying the pain being inflicted upon you. These are two very stark (and dark) extremes in human nature. But did you know that the Germans came up with a world that is a middle ground between the two, that still manages to retain all of the darkness of the two extremes? That word is Schadenfreude, and it\u2019s all about deriving pleasure and joy while watching someone else in pain.
\n\u00a0\u00a0
\nDirectly translated, the word means \u201cJoy in Damage.\u201d The big difference between Schadenfreude and Sadism is that with sadism, the joy you are feeling comes from your direct involvement in the pain your dishing out. With Schadenfreude, you have nothing to do with the pain someone else feels. You\u2019re just a casual observer that is tickled pink by someone locking their keys in their car, or going through a bad breakup, or a politician getting caught in a scandal. <\/p>\n
\n
Word: Esprit De L\u2019Escalier <\/h2>\nLanguage: French <\/h2>\n<\/div>\nSo you\u2019re face-to-face with that guy in your office that you can\u2019t stand. You both get in to a small argument that\u2019s ready to explode. You\u2019re both feeling it out, looking for the proper moment to strike with a powerful verbal comeback that will ravage the other guy’s entire argument and send it crashing to the floor. <\/p>\n
But, then\u2026he says that one thing. That one thing that you can\u2019t defend against. \u201cBlah Blah Blah!!\u201d he says. Everyone around it is shocked. They can\u2019t believe he said that. He got you good. Now, it\u2019s your turn. If you come back with something good, you win. So your brain races.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s scrambling. It might have something\u2026maybe\u2026sort of\u2026no. No. No. You\u2019ve got nothing. You have no comeback. You\u2019re a laughingstock. This guy just made a fool out of you and you just stood there and took it.<\/p>\n
Hours later, you\u2019re on the subway on the way home. To any onlooker, you\u2019re just a young guy or gal bored out of their mind and staring out in to space; slowly rocking back and forth with the track\u2019s many bumps and shifts. But then\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, yeah? So\u2019s your face!!\u201d you randomly yell out. <\/p>\n
Everyone around you is lucky they all brought their mace that afternoon, because, to them, you\u2019re the definition of crazy. But what they don\u2019t know is that you just had a moment of Esprit De L\u2019Escalie. Literally translated, \u201cthe spirit in the staircase.\u201d It\u2019s when you are publically insulted and only come up with the perfect comeback after you\u2019ve left the situation. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s a \u201cspirit\u201d because it could haunt you for the rest of your life.<\/p>\n
\nWord: Blita Mpash<\/h2>\n\nLanguage: Bantu<\/h2>\n<\/div>\nWhen you wake up in the middle of the night screaming and covered in sweat, hoping that you\u2019re not actually being chased by a giant donut with razor-sharp teeth and with the voice of your high school bully, you\u2019re having what\u2019s commonly known as a nightmare.<\/p>\n
But what if it\u2019s the opposite? If you wake up in the middle of the night feeling a little\u2026happy? What if you had some nighttime mental pictures of really nice, very sweet things?. A dream that just makes you feel good about yourself, and not thank your lucky stars that you laid down a plastic sheet before you hit the hay. In English, we don\u2019t really have a word for \u201cgood\u201d dreams. We have “nightmare” for the bad, scary ones; and the word \u201cdream\u201d is just a general term for all of the pictures we see in your heads while we sleep. The closest there is is a word in the Bantu language that means a \u201clegendary, blissful state where all is forgiven and forgotten.\u201d <\/p>\n
Sounds pleasant, doesn\u2019t?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Words. Without them we\u2019d all be really, really good at charades. And we probably wouldn\u2019t have gotten this far as a society. What moved us further ahead was our ability to understand one-another’s idea\u2019s across the language barrier. By learning about the experience and culture of others through passing their words through a filter that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
So you\u2019re face-to-face with that guy in your office that you can\u2019t stand. You both get in to a small argument that\u2019s ready to explode. You\u2019re both feeling it out, looking for the proper moment to strike with a powerful verbal comeback that will ravage the other guy’s entire argument and send it crashing to the floor. <\/p>\n
But, then\u2026he says that one thing. That one thing that you can\u2019t defend against. \u201cBlah Blah Blah!!\u201d he says. Everyone around it is shocked. They can\u2019t believe he said that. He got you good. Now, it\u2019s your turn. If you come back with something good, you win. So your brain races.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s scrambling. It might have something\u2026maybe\u2026sort of\u2026no. No. No. You\u2019ve got nothing. You have no comeback. You\u2019re a laughingstock. This guy just made a fool out of you and you just stood there and took it.<\/p>\n
Hours later, you\u2019re on the subway on the way home. To any onlooker, you\u2019re just a young guy or gal bored out of their mind and staring out in to space; slowly rocking back and forth with the track\u2019s many bumps and shifts. But then\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, yeah? So\u2019s your face!!\u201d you randomly yell out. <\/p>\n
Everyone around you is lucky they all brought their mace that afternoon, because, to them, you\u2019re the definition of crazy. But what they don\u2019t know is that you just had a moment of Esprit De L\u2019Escalie. Literally translated, \u201cthe spirit in the staircase.\u201d It\u2019s when you are publically insulted and only come up with the perfect comeback after you\u2019ve left the situation. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s a \u201cspirit\u201d because it could haunt you for the rest of your life.<\/p>\n
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Word: Blita Mpash<\/h2>\n\nLanguage: Bantu<\/h2>\n<\/div>\nWhen you wake up in the middle of the night screaming and covered in sweat, hoping that you\u2019re not actually being chased by a giant donut with razor-sharp teeth and with the voice of your high school bully, you\u2019re having what\u2019s commonly known as a nightmare.<\/p>\n
But what if it\u2019s the opposite? If you wake up in the middle of the night feeling a little\u2026happy? What if you had some nighttime mental pictures of really nice, very sweet things?. A dream that just makes you feel good about yourself, and not thank your lucky stars that you laid down a plastic sheet before you hit the hay. In English, we don\u2019t really have a word for \u201cgood\u201d dreams. We have “nightmare” for the bad, scary ones; and the word \u201cdream\u201d is just a general term for all of the pictures we see in your heads while we sleep. The closest there is is a word in the Bantu language that means a \u201clegendary, blissful state where all is forgiven and forgotten.\u201d <\/p>\n
Sounds pleasant, doesn\u2019t?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Words. Without them we\u2019d all be really, really good at charades. And we probably wouldn\u2019t have gotten this far as a society. What moved us further ahead was our ability to understand one-another’s idea\u2019s across the language barrier. By learning about the experience and culture of others through passing their words through a filter that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
When you wake up in the middle of the night screaming and covered in sweat, hoping that you\u2019re not actually being chased by a giant donut with razor-sharp teeth and with the voice of your high school bully, you\u2019re having what\u2019s commonly known as a nightmare.<\/p>\n
But what if it\u2019s the opposite? If you wake up in the middle of the night feeling a little\u2026happy? What if you had some nighttime mental pictures of really nice, very sweet things?. A dream that just makes you feel good about yourself, and not thank your lucky stars that you laid down a plastic sheet before you hit the hay. In English, we don\u2019t really have a word for \u201cgood\u201d dreams. We have “nightmare” for the bad, scary ones; and the word \u201cdream\u201d is just a general term for all of the pictures we see in your heads while we sleep. The closest there is is a word in the Bantu language that means a \u201clegendary, blissful state where all is forgiven and forgotten.\u201d <\/p>\n
Sounds pleasant, doesn\u2019t?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Words. Without them we\u2019d all be really, really good at charades. And we probably wouldn\u2019t have gotten this far as a society. What moved us further ahead was our ability to understand one-another’s idea\u2019s across the language barrier. By learning about the experience and culture of others through passing their words through a filter that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}