L’esprit de escalier: (French) The feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said. Translated it means “the spirit of the staircase.”
I guess this would be my favourite foreign word (assuming English isn't a foreign language, else I'd have a truckload full of favourite foreign words). I believe everyone knows what this means, it's when we talk to someone we want to carry a conversation with but then words just dry up and suddenly you can't think of anything to say. After you leave the person you were having a heated argument over something totally random and/or inappropriate with, you begin to mentally slap yourself and say, "Argh. I should've said something else."
It actually is something all of us do, usually without us noticing. We do something we thought would be funny, but then after we hurt someone with our action, we go all, "Shit. I never should've attempted to do that."
It's a cycle. We always unconsciously do things wrong. And then when we look back, we experience this French sensation. We tell ourselves how stupid we were for not doing something or for doing something entirely wrong.
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