*ahem*

[lirazel]

Dear German language,

I love you and the fact that you have a word for everything. I also love that when there's not a word for something, you make one up by smooshing already-existing words together. I hope we get tons more loan-words from you (schadenfreude is one of the most useful words in the world!), but I hope we steal this one from you next:

fremdschämen: cringing embarrassment for the actions of others

What English says with seven words, you say with one.

SO. USEFUL.

It describes why I can't watch The Office or America's Funniest Home Videos and why I can't be friends with that one--very nice girl--from high school who I have a lot of common interests with but who makes me wince whenever she's around.

Thank you!

Umarmungen und Küsse,

Lauren

P.S. You are also the most fun language in the world to sing in.

Comments

[marketchippie.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD, GERMAN.

I'm in a German intensive right now and it's ridiculous how much this language has taken over my life. Hysteria. It's like linguistic Legos.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

It was technically my minor, but I never learned very much of it because of bad teachers and I literally haven't used it in three or so years other than when I'm bouncing around the house singing Silbermond songs on the top of my lungs. But I love it so. Lil Sis and I are planning on moving back to Wien when she graduates (if we can find any kind of jobs at all, especially since she only speaks English and Spanish), so I need to get Rosetta Stone or something and refresh.

[marketchippie.livejournal.com]

Did you live there? (Jealous. I think I'm going this summer.)

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

We both did study abroad there for a semester (though at different times). FAVORITE MOST BEAUTIFUL CITY IN THE WORLD. I'm not even a city person at all, and I am MAD about it.

I hope you get to go and I can live vicariously through you! I need to do a picspam of my old pics sometime!

Your icon is so appropriate!