From Washington DC, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.
I'm Bob Garfield with Mike Volo, and today on the show,
those nuanced and very specific feelings you have,
and others often do too,
for which no English words ever existed to represent them, until basically now.
Hey, Mikey.
Hey, Bob.
How you doing?
Splendid.
Thank you and your own self.
I am often frustrated over what I would call my ongoing lifelong inability to fly.
For as long as I can remember, I've had flying dreams,
like many people, not quite Superman racing across the sky.
These are more serene than that, more floating up and down like a hot air balloon,
which I've been in, so I know that sensation.
And sometimes, when I'm walking down the street, I feel,
I feel almost upset that I can't just lift off like I do in my dreams.
Now, it turns out that there's a word for that.
Mopio Hansia is defined as, quote, the frustration of being unable to fly,
unable to stretch out your arms and vault into the air,