I remember when I first moved to Germany from the UK. I was immersed in a foreign language and my brain was constantly telling me I needed to go to sleep, especially after social occasions where the language input was extreme.
I pictured my brain sorting out words and linkages as I slept. Makes sense for the brain to require partial downtime for a index reorganisation.
Funnily enough I'm now at the stage where certain German expressions and mannerisms have started to surplant my native British English ones. Germans often have one word for something where in English you need a whole sentence. Somehow these words creep into your vocabulary and merge across the language boundaries.
Germans often have one word for something where in English you need a whole sentence. //
Something tells me there's a word for that, concision (or brevity or conciseness). But something auf Deutsch would me more trendy and intellectual sounding ...
Good luck using that in everyday light conversation. The required explanation will likely be longer than if you had used 'schadenfreude' in an English conversation!
And 'Epicaricacy' fortunately doesn't sound nearly as trendy and intellectual as a German word would.
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I remember when I first moved to Germany from the UK. I was immersed in a foreign language and my brain was constantly telling me I needed to go to sleep, especially after social occasions where the language input was extreme.
I pictured my brain sorting out words and linkages as I slept. Makes sense for the brain to require partial downtime for a index reorganisation.
And garbage collection.
Lol. Yes and garbage collection.
Funnily enough I'm now at the stage where certain German expressions and mannerisms have started to surplant my native British English ones. Germans often have one word for something where in English you need a whole sentence. Somehow these words creep into your vocabulary and merge across the language boundaries.
Something tells me there's a word for that, concision (or brevity or conciseness). But something auf Deutsch would me more trendy and intellectual sounding ...
'schadenfreude'.
Epicaricacy.
Good luck using that in everyday light conversation. The required explanation will likely be longer than if you had used 'schadenfreude' in an English conversation!
And 'Epicaricacy' fortunately doesn't sound nearly as trendy and intellectual as a German word would.