Awesome German Words

[Kyle]

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.

[Walrus]

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

[poorpete]

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

[Kyle]

Yes, let's make some up.

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

[poorpete]

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."

[Kyle]

[Kyle]

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.

[poorpete]

[Kyle]

[poorpete]

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

[DMDarcs]

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

[poorpete]

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)

[Kyle]

Forschergeheimer? It means secret researcher.

[Ronster]

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

[Ronster]