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Ah, but it does have an equivalent in English: it's schadenfreude.
by tacomonstrous 7y ago
Ah, 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 ...