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Yep, I always think of schadenfreude in this context. A single word that we've stolen for something that would take multiple English words to express. Why come
by mrkstu 3y ago
Yep, I always think of schadenfreude in this context. A single word that we've stolen for something that would take multiple English words to express. Why come up with our own new English word, when there is a perfectly cromulent one right over there in German?
Meanwhile the French have to continually consult their academics to create new French words that their citizens keep trying to borrow from other languages (mostly English)...
- hinkley 3y agoWhen the government owned a lot of businesses it was easier to enforce it. I wonder how well it’s working now that they’ve desocialized so many things.