Nerd Pride Radio

So I've become a little bit obsessed with the German idea of creating new words by jamming together a bunch of other words for a new idea. Like Treppenwitz- the word for when you think of a good thing you should have said, but after the opportunity for you to have said it.

So I want to use this post to list German words that we need to start using in the English vernacular because they are too good/weird/awesome.

I've searched for, but not found, a word to describe the event when you witness a movie or story that describes an injury to a person's body part, and you- in sympathy- grab that same body part on your own body. If this exists and anyone knows what it is- please tell me. I'm sure the translation will be "German for The Corsican Brothers" or something equally weird.

As illustrated in the last episode
Defenestrate - german word coming from fenester (german for window) Coined in Prague in the 1600's

Ok, going to make some up, via google translate

Faultierhetzen
A rushing sloth
Going to quickly and taking forever

"Boy this impeachment is a Faultierhetzen!" - GOP operative

Yes, let's make some up.

Spiegelverletzung
Mirror injury.
When someone grabs their body part after seeing someone else injure the same body part.

Swastikaversöhnlichkeit

When a symbol used to support hate is accepted into polite society by the people it hurt.

"African-Americans may someday Swastikaversöhnlichkeit the Confederate flag, disarming it of its hateful power, until then, it's verboten."

törichterbrillenhut
Literal translation: Foolish Glasses Hat
A person who is frantically searching for their reading glasses without realizing that they have wearing them above their forehead.

Fair. My point being it'll never happen but ya not my best effort. tut mir leid

(a real one)
Kummerspecht
the food that you eat, not because you are hungry, but because you are depressed. Literal translation: grief bacon.

I think I was hungry for a brief moment a few weeks ago, so I'm probably 99% kummerspecht.

I'd like a word for when someone asks a question that I don't know the answer to, but then I do some quick research on wikipedia and then spout off the answer like I'm smart, when in fact I'm just the person who is reading the answer.

Ansagerantworten maybe? (answer announcer)

Forschergeheimer? It means secret researcher.

I remember KankenWagen

It's an ambulance...not a portmanteau, but still cool to say...say it angry and remember the w is a v sound