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> Holy crap that was exhilarating A perfect occasion to... laachen?

• Aachen 4y ago
  > exhilarating - causing strong feelings of happy excitement and elation TIL that refers specifically to feelings that would cause laughing. Took me a while to get your pun, also because (to this dutchman) aachen is two sounds removed from lachen and not one like it might be for a german (where they hardly differentiate between short a and long aa). I find it hard to describe feelings (in any language), maybe "shocking" is a better word than exhilarating? But that sounds more negative than I mean it. The german word that comes to mind (I hardly speak german so this might be far off) is aufregend which dict.cc says translates to both shocking and thrilling, maybe that's a better description because it's not specifically about being happy or scared but rather a neutral energetic feeling? "Getting worked up" might be a translation of aufregen but it doesn't sound like what an english speaker would say in this situation due to connotation.
  • dEnigma 4y ago
    "Aufregend" sounds fitting to me as a native German speaker. In most contexts I would translate it as "exciting". It can have some more negative connotations, in the "getting worked up" sense, but mostly when used like "sich über etwas aufregen" (so as a verb not an adjective), and when describing your feelings regarding this event it's more on the "exciting/thrilling" side.