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In Spanish we have an expression for the way you feel: "vergüenza ajena", which loosely translates to "feeling the embarrassment someone else should feel for th
by dguaraglia 9y ago
In Spanish we have an expression for the way you feel: "vergüenza ajena", which loosely translates to "feeling the embarrassment someone else should feel for their actions." It's pretty nifty, if not very catchy :P
- roywiggins 9y agoApparently it's "fremdscham" in German.
- dguaraglia 9y agoSee, that's catchier! Now we are talking.
- someSven 9y agofremdschämen is the verb
- nerdponx 9y agoI like this. There's a lesser-known phrase in English with a similar meaning, "embarrassment transfer".
- mjburgess 9y agoOr, "cringeworthy"
- tophattom 9y agoIn Finnish that is called "myötähäpeä"
- jeroenjanssens 9y agoIn Dutch we call this "plaatsvervangende schaamte".