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#5193 08/10/00 02:59 PM
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Can anyone refresh my memory? I am looking for a word, I believe German, but used in English to describe the taking of delight in someone else's misfortune.


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i think it's "shadenfreude".
spelling may be wrong.


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just checked:
"schadenfreude"


#5196 08/11/00 03:37 PM
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Welcome, Donald, good to have you!

Thankfully, "schadenfreude" is not an affliction I suffer
from. I don't suffer from insanity, either--I'm quite
comfortable with it, thank you.




#5197 08/13/00 11:38 PM
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not to be confused with Weldscmerz ( - are all these angst-connoting words german derived??!!!!!)


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.....whoops misspell - should have been Weldschmerz!


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actually, the anglicized spelling is usually weltschmerz.

but you're right about those fun-loving Germans; schwarmerei and weltanschauung are a couple more angst-ridden borrowings.


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tsuwm,
how do you KNOW these words!?

with respect...


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>>actually, the anglicized spelling is usually weltschmerz.

It's Weltschmerz auf Deutsch , too.


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I just finished reading an interesting book on this topic by the Harvard science historian Anne Harrington: "Reenchanted Science: German Holism from Wilhelm II to Hitler". Besides unearthing surprising connections, it also shows the difficulties experienced by Anglo-Saxons to put themselves mentally in the German mode of discourse (to penetrate the "skin" of German thoughts).


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