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Schadenfreude is a word used regularly enough that it's actually in most English dictionaries now. Papierwurst is a word you just made up that doesn't mean any
by awillen 6y ago
Schadenfreude is a word used regularly enough that it's actually in most English dictionaries now.
Papierwurst is a word you just made up that doesn't mean anything.
You're just here trying to let people know that you know German grammar. That's fine, but your example isn't comparable or relevant.
- apocolyps6 6y agoWhat that poster is trying to tell you is that your example term is just as likely an accident of the structure of German language than some insight into the soul of the German people. The fact that schadenfreude is a German term could very well be that it's easier to make these sorts of terms in German than for any other reason. Genocide is an English word. Does that mean that Americans in particular "readily identify" with ethnic cleansing?