German Words for Gchat-related Psychoemotional States
Speaking of Gchat…
Verkendokumentaugenstich: The momentary pinch of inadequacy and remorse felt when you glance away from a chat and spot the work you are supposed to be doing, before returning to ask your friend "fix my liiife? fix it?"
Dunksturrfenvlecht: The desire (conscious or unconscious) to leave, and concomitant pleasure derived from leaving, your chat window "available" after you've gone to bed in order to elicit other people's drunk messages and wake up feeling like you have a lot of friends.
Dopplepastenschande. When you make a successful joke in one chat window and paste it in another only to realize you pasted the name of the first person you were talking to along with your joke, so your petty joke-pride is evident to all.
Zuppenstaff: Gchat material describing to a friend someone you have spotted in a public space and hate instantly.
Zuppenstaff-durfeinvlicht: The knowledge that you are being zuppenstaffed.
Zuppenstaff-durfeinvlicht-mecht-RomCom: Two people are zuppenstaffing each other at the same time, then they fall in love. (Tagline: Her status was busy, but her heart was available.)
Chattenskumpf: The misunderstanding that develops between two chatters due to a failure of inflection or tone often leading to confusion about what "really" happened.
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This would be funnier if you appeared to know any German at all :-/
@kaffeefee BREAKING NEWS: Fake German Is Fake
@kaffeefee Look at that sparkling German sense of humor!
@kaffeefee I agree. A half-ass attempt using Babelfish might have been funny. Das hier war einfach saudoof.
@Katja Rieck@facebook Well, I will definitely use Doppelpastenschande.
@kaffeefee @elsbels I liked that one too, but that's because it looks the closest to real German. German compound nouns are hilarious enough that there isn't really a need to make up fake syllables – cf. "Naturwissenschaftgeschichte."
@gimlet Sorry! What I meant was that the concept is funny but the execution isn't particularly great, if one happens to know German. (I don't know why I go around the internet assuming people DO…)
@Xanthophyllippa Oh, oh! I like this game!
Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänswitwenrente
Also, have you read Mark Twain's essay on the German language? It is brilliant.
@kaffeefee Ja, stimm ich Dir zu. Idee war witzig… hätten se halt Deutsche Hairpinners fragen sollen, wir hätten das besser hingekriegt!
Well, I only died of a severe case of the LOLZ.
Arbeitmeinenschnell: rapidly minimizing your chat window when your boss walks past your desk while trying to conceal the urgency of the motion with a breezy smile.
@YourFriendLiz That's why I love Mac OS X's Spaces feature. Multiple virtual desktops! Control-right arrow or control-left arrow switches me easily from all my work space to my slack-off space.
@jen325 You may have to come over and show me how to do that. Except that you don't live here.
@Xanthophyllippa No, I certainly don't. But here's the next best thing: http://mac.appstorm.net/how-to/os-x/an-introduction-to-spaces-on-os-x/
@jen325 Thank you!!
@Xanthophyllippa You're quite welcome! Enjoy.
I'm feeling like the only Hairpinner that doesn't rely on GChat to talk to my friends today.
@QuiteAimable You are not alone!
@QuiteAimable No me too! I never got into text chat programs and I don't know why.
What's the word for when you're trying to tell someone what a bitch someone else is behind their back, via text, and you accidentally send it to that someone else. And it is very obvious that you could only be talking about that someone else. And that someone else is your coworker. I need the word for that. For a friend.
@nogreeneggs Or when you go on a not-good-at-all date with your good friend and accidentally text him about the date when you mean to text your friend. … also for a friend.
@nogreeneggs I need a similar word to describe when one of my former bosses once sent me an email about how awful I was when she was trying to send it to a co-worker.
@kayarr WHY DO IPHONES MAKE THIS SO EASY?
@sox YES WHY MY GOD SO DANGEROUS. I swear to God, I'm writing a text to Person A, then my iphone thinks 'Haha I'm so gonna just send this to Person B…'
@nogreeneggs Don't know the word, but the comedian David O'Doherty documented this phenomenon in a song… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAG18UUDPPI
I want more gchat related articles. I don't know why, but I do.
@everythingbagel Me too. Because they make me feel better, but also worse.
@kaffeefee: //:=|
Hairpinners, you're good with the emoticons on Gmail right? Like turds and robots? Most of my gchattin' is turds and robots.
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I know more, but then again I do live on the internet.