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Let’s not forget schadenfreude!
by schappim 7y ago
Let’s not forget schadenfreude!
- tacomonstrous 7y agoAh, but it does have an equivalent in English: it's schadenfreude.
- schappim 7y agoOnly because we fairly recently stole it!
- jjgreen 7y agoNot that recently, it's been used italiced and capitalised for a century, only recently it's been properly absorbed by losing those decorations. In contrast, the French absorb foreign words almost instantly, see the verb "liker" (to like on Facebook) for example.
- schappim 7y agoInteresting, when I was a boy, my mother (who was a German Teacher), always used it as an example of one of these great German words without a direct translation. Back then it didn’t seem to be used in popular culture, now I seem to hear it on a weekly basis!
- jjgreen 7y agoI definitely saw it in the English music paper, the New Musical Express, in the late `70s (very Punk at the time), I remember having to look it up ...
- enlyth 7y agoYou mean epicaricacy?
- Tepix 7y agoWiktionary Usage notes: The word is mentioned in some early dictionaries, but there is little or no evidence of actual usage until it was picked up by various "interesting word" websites around the turn of the twenty-first century.