You know, there should be a name for any situation that we encountered every day. There just a little word to it, and unfortunately, they are not English words.
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BAKKU-SHAN (Japanese)
MEAN: A beautiful girl, as long as she is viewed from behind. Or a woman that looks better from behind than from the front.
HAHA oh yeah. I've had several experiences with this term. There was once on Putra Masjid Jamek subway station, when I thought I saw a really beautiful woman, from behind of course. She was walking very fast about two meters in front of me. So, I sped up just to watch her face. And so, as you can guess, I really watched her face, but in terror! ahaha sorry I'm not being sexist right here.
I think, bile just rises to my throat.
4. L'esprit de l'escalier (French)
MEAN: Act of thinking of a response, argument or clever comeback when it is too late to deliver it.
Let me simplify it,
"When you have thought of a perfect verbal comeback, it is much too late"
Frustration.
Yeah, a perfect word that may come after that.
I think I have experienced this kind of moment for a few times before. When a person was trying to insult me verbally, I was actually not giving any damn at all because I didn't have any comeback for him/her. But as a few moments passed by, the right and perfect word just came right straight into my mind. But, it is just much too late to say it to him/her. Let me lay out an example of my kind of situation:
Enemy:
Hey, I see that you are dating a monster! (Referring to a girl I was talking to)
Me:
Aha... (Speechless)
Just as I was walking down the stairs to the car park, I finally came out with a perfect comeback.
"Oh yeah? I thought she is your sister!"
but, it is just too much too late...
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. Sgiomlaireachd (Scottish Gaelic)
MEAN: When people interrupt you at meal time.
Aha, although this isn't often happening to me, but I would like to point this out.
Don't you just hate it when you were about to sit down after finish serving up your food to the table, and suddenly, there is a knock on the door? Maybe it is a local hippie trying to get some petition? Or maybe even a local politician?
Yeah, that is freakishly annoying.
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. Fremdschämen (German)
It's German for "to feel embarrassed by somebody else".
What it means here is like, when you are watching someone performing on stage, and he does something embarrassing in front of crowd, you feel embarrassed by the situation. It is practically unexplainable why we would feel embarrassed by someone else's embarrassment.
Situation A:
Person A: Hey, that guy just fell from his chair!
Person B: Oh my god! He must be embarrassed! I feel shame myself.. I shouldn't watch him fall.
Situation B:
Person A: Oh my god! Did you see that?! Beyonce just fell off from the stage while she was singing while walking down the stairs!
Person B: Oh no! This can't be happening to her! I feel embarrassed to watch how she fell! She's a superstar! How come she could fell from the stage?!
Haha! I can't stop laughing!
1. Ohrwurm (German)
MEAN: A portion of a song that stuck in one's head.
This is why I don't often listen to radio. One of the reason is, I'm afraid that I might end up of listening to Lady Gaga's songs, in which at the end of the day, the song (whatever it might be) will ended up repeating itself compulsively inside my head like an Mp3 that only playing one song. Yeah, you know how bad it is when a song that you hate stuck in your head for the rest of the day. Yeah, I don't want "Alejandro Alejandro Alejandro.." playing itself in my head.
And now her freak image is stuck in my head. ARRHH!!
