Inspired by this thread which contains a link to this site.
Is there a real word for “droitwich” in any language?
I’m looking at you, German.
Inspired by this thread which contains a link to this site.
Is there a real word for “droitwich” in any language?
I’m looking at you, German.
Hmm, I’m thinking that a better way to phrase that may have been:
Is there a word in any language that means the same thing as “droitwich”?
I don’t know about a single English word for droitwich but the phrase I’ve always used is The Concrete Quadrille.
German: Gehendertanzdesverlegenheitflures.
(I made that up.)
The Pavement Pavane?
The Sidewalk Shuffle?
The Walkway Waltz?
The Corridor Cakewalk?
The Hallway Hotstep?
Nah. It’s not long enough for a German word.
Thanks for this. I think I’m going to go with “avoidancing”. I was really hoping there’d be something in German or Norwegian or Icelandic though. Those guys have a word for everything.
Wow. Following tanstaafl’s link I see I picked up the term Concrete Quadrille from The Master himself while I still was in college. I could never have guessed where I picked it up and thus a small bit of personal ignorance is vanquished.
Thank you very much for that link! The first word that popped into my head was “shuggleftulation” and I was wondering where the hell that came from!