[Illbay]

"Zeitgeist" means "the spirit of the age," or "conventional wisdom writ large," etc. German has the knack for distilling a whole lot into one word.

[Chad Fairbanks]

I actually knew that... but thanks anyway :0)

(I just think it's funny how Al Gore uses words like this in an attempt to appear smarter, but in the end he keeps coming across as a horses' ass)