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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI need to find that special German word that means that feeling of general unease...
...when you've got a normal and rational President again, but your relief is blunted knowing you still have a highly irrational and dangerous ex-President continuing to cause chaos, harm and division in the background.
Jazz Jon
(159 posts)Angst
Ritabert
(2,446 posts)Klaralven
(7,510 posts)Emrys
(9,101 posts)Noun
borrowed from German Angst, going back to Middle High German angest, going back to Old High German angust "distress, worry, anxiety," going back to West Germanic *angusti- (whence also Old Frisian ongesta, ongosta "anxiety, danger," Middle Dutch anxt, anxte), derivative, with a noun suffix *-ti- or *-sti-, of the Germanic base *angu- seen in Old English enge "narrow," ange "distressing," Old High German ango "anxious" ...
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/angst
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)A large part of the English vocabulary is borrowed.
There aren't really any non-English words; just ones we haven't borrowed yet.
Happy Hoosier
(9,535 posts)It's sneaks up behind them, bashes them on the head, and they wake to find themselves in the latest edition of Webster's.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Sneederbunk
(17,496 posts)Haggard Celine
(17,822 posts)After all, Hitler didn't live to cause chaos after the war. If he had, the Germans would have executed him. Too bad Donald and Malaria didn't kill themselves in the bunker after the election.
sop
(18,626 posts)Sanity Claws
(22,413 posts)Paladin
(32,354 posts)Celerity
(54,411 posts)
LastDemocratInSC
(4,242 posts)milestogo
(23,084 posts)Hekate
(100,133 posts)I see your smiley, though.
bottomofthehill
(9,390 posts)I feel it every day when I leave the House for work.
bottomofthehill
(9,390 posts)I feel it every day when I leave the House for work.
muriel_volestrangler
(106,212 posts)roamer65
(37,957 posts)BeerBarrelPolka
(2,173 posts)Drumphinhousen
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Bucky
(55,334 posts)oder untergliebenglaubengloeben