Rosetta Stone - Raise your hand if you've ever come up with the perfect reply too late after leaving a conversation. 🙋 There's a term for that in French: "L'esprit de l'escalier" (
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Word Lovers - 🇫🇷 Have you ever experienced L'esprit de l'escalier (French term, literally meaning 'the staircase mind')? 🤔 . 🤓 English speakers sometimes call this ""escalator wit"", or ""staircase wit"". Afterwit
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