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With epicaricacy no less. http://www.bisso.com/ujg/Scroll down to the Jan 2 entry.
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Is he daring to challenge our own tsuwm?? [bristle e]
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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...  )
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I just noticed this my own self earlier this a.m.; and I dashed off an email to UJ in response to his complaint that he couldn't find epicaricacy in any real dictionary (reading between the lines there) -- I straightened the record on that, I did.
from Nathan Bailey's "An Universal Etymological English Dictionary", which is a very olde dictionary indeed (1721):
Epicharikaky - from the Greek words or roots for "upon", "joy", and "evil": "A Joy at the Misfortunes of others".
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Meine Muttersprache ist Englisch.
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Well, it would've been hard for me to find it in Bailey's, too, because I would've looked under epicaricacy instead of epicharikaky. I replied to your email this morning, but it bounced back. Now, it would be nice to know who used the word or if it only exists in a dictionary.
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Us here bin usen it alla time, Unca J.
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Sorry, I meant who used the word back in the 18th century or before. Surely these fora are not that old.
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who used the word back in the 18th century or before
Most a them is a little too dead to ask. It ain' in the brick and mortar OED, FWTW.
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Willkommen, Onkel Jb.
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Willkommen, Onkel Jb.
Why, thankee kindly.
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>..with bad coding and everything.
if you reference UJ's site via IE, you don't get all of the unfortunate HTML intercepts.
>Is he daring to challenge our own tsuwm?
no, but language hat does a nice job of that.
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>..with bad coding and everything.
It's pretty standard HTML, CSS, Unicode, etc. Looks OK in newer version of Netscape and/or Mozilla. I know that polytonal Greek and Chinese don't seem to show up under MacOS X IE. Sigh
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oops, mea culpa, Nuncle. (You been lookin' at my browser??)
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You been lookin' at my browser??
Nope, I just had some friends check it out under different OSes and browsers.
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