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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
(109 posts)Angst
Ritabert
(673 posts)Klaralven
(7,510 posts)Emrys
(7,287 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
(7,454 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
(14,318 posts)Haggard Celine
(16,864 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
(10,283 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,863 posts)Paladin
(28,281 posts)Celerity
(43,671 posts)LastDemocratInSC
(3,656 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)Hekate
(90,956 posts)I see your smiley, though.
bottomofthehill
(8,358 posts)I feel it every day when I leave the House for work.
bottomofthehill
(8,358 posts)I feel it every day when I leave the House for work.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,403 posts)roamer65
(36,747 posts)BeerBarrelPolka
(1,202 posts)Drumphinhousen
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Bucky
(54,087 posts)oder untergliebenglaubengloeben