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POV: You’re 🇫🇷French and absolutely must say “c’est dépaysant” about every place that isn’t France. There’s this French word that doesn’t translate: le dépaysement. It’s that feeling when you are somewhere unfamiliar and your brain needs a second to catch up. Everything can look and feel different. I felt it the first time I stood in the Texas desert. 🏜 The closest English gets: “it feels like another world, so different from home, takes you out of your element. None of them quite capture it