The iPhone is the floating car we imagined we’d be driving in the future.
— Michael Mulvey: Why There’s an iPhone Craze (via DF)
L’esprit de l’escalier (literally, stairway wit) is a French term that describes the predicament of thinking of the right comeback too late.
(Wikipedia | L’esprit de l’escalier)
French: “l’esprit de l’escalier”
German: “treppenwitz”
American: “Jerk Store”.
(from a random ask mefi post i can’t find now)
“In the mid 1990s, German channel Kabel 1 wound up pulling their sitcom Seinfeld off the air due to poor ratings and replaced it with Hogan’s Heroes. The humor of Seinfeld was lost on the German audience, partially due to the difficulty of translating Seinfeld’s American culture and phrases for a German audience. Hogan’s Heroes, by contrast, translated easily, despite the fact that the show’s humor was largely based on poking fun at Germany and its culture.” (Wikipedia | Hogan’s Heroes)
Berlin: Germans watch Hogan’s Heroes dubbed into German. I thought for a moment that my head would explode from the cacophony of thought this produced, but I was able to pull back from the abyss.
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