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[d_aulnoy]

I spent all day putting together Ikea furniture (with the invaluable assistance of vschanoes ): this has resulted in a newly organized apartment, a blistered thumb, a great sense of satisfaction, and the coining of the phrase, "having an Ikea moment."  

It's sort of like a blonde moment, but accessible to a larger portion of the population: it references that indefinable frustration that occurs when, at the very last minute possible, you realize you've put something together wrong, and you don't know how.  I'm sure there's already a word for it, and I'm sure it's in German.

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[sacredchao23.livejournal.com]

I suspect the word is something like schwedischesgefühl, or "Swedish-Feeling," and I have experienced it many times.

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

But it would be a feeling caused *by* the Swedes, rather than feeling *like* a Swede - we already have a word for the latter, and it is "smug."

(Trust me, I married one. There is a mug in my house that reads, "Living with a Swede builds character.")

[sacredchao23.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, all the Swedes I know have that down pat.

I am married to a third-generation Swedish immigrant who's grandfather asked why she was going to graduate school for Irish Studies rather than Swedish studies. She told him she didn't want to sit around and watch Bergman. I mentioned that to Stefan at ICFA and he thought it was a fair point.

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Hexenwrenchenfreudengemineshaft?

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

When you watch it happen to a friend and smirk? That's Ikeafreude.