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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
i just thought of another one. i don't know if it has a good translation in english, i would be interested to learn it if it does :
décalé(e)
a very useful word. the litteral meaning is something like "shifted" or "deplaced". one very common meaning can be translated as jet-lagged, but it can also be used in a similar sense, when "someone" (ahem) has managed to get themselves completely off a normal timetable, for example not going to bed until 4 in the morning, without the assistance of long-distance air travel (or faster than light travel, or any travel at all, but all within the comfort of their own home).
it also has a more figurative meaning, for something which is "shifted" from the norm, like the opposite of "mainstream".
any ideas ? a word like that would be really useful to me in english, for obvious reasons. 
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I think if we want to describe the general feeling of being jet-lagged without specifically referring to jet-lag, we might say "out of sorts", which has unclear origins but might refer to the typesetting trade (in which the lead letters were referred to as "sorts").
Someone out of sorts is just a bit unwell, a bit confused, mildly disoriented. It doesn't however confine itself to feeling that way because of any temporal or physical "shift". So I think you may have indeed found another good example.