Nah, he's giving full credit, with bad coding and everything:

A friend sent along a link to the Worthless Word for the Day site, and against better judgment I succumbed to the chance to brush up on inkhorn words. Imagine my shock and delight to discover epicaricacy ‘schadenfreude’. A word I’d always thought didn’t exist in English.

(I'm gonna have fun trying to decide if his nativer[sic] language is English or German... )