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The BS Dictionary
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The BS Dictionary

by Bob Wiltfong, Tim Ito
April 2020
Intermediate to advanced
340 pages
8h 38m
English
Association for Talent Development
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The Elephant in the Room

ACHTUNG, BABY!

Zeitgeist is just one of several German words in the BS world that are still going strong. Look at these others.

angst

dissatisfaction or disenchantment

doppelgänger

a person who is the spitting image of another person

kaput

broken or busted

kitschy

oversentimental, cheap, poorly produced, or appealing to mass tastes

schadenfreude

being happy that something bad happened to someone else

über

the ride service; a preposition or prefix in German that means “higher” or “greater”

wanderlust

a restlessness that causes a desire to travel and see the world

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