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Schadenhorny?
sarcasticsmoothie:
must. learn. german.
bhtooefr:
Except fickenfreude might actually make sense - I believe it literally means fucking joy (as in, taking joy in fucking.)
cerement:
Okay, with all the armchair linguists in this thread, maybe someone could answer a question I've had for a long time.
Schadenfreude (or at least the English borrowed form) is pretty general, "enjoyment at another's misfortune". But it doesn't differentiate between pranks, acts-of-god, self-caused, or other. We've got an over-specific "Darwin award" for those who've self-caused their misfortune severely enough to remove themselves from breeding.
What I've been looking for is a word (preferably, but not necessarily in German) that would describe a reflexive form of schadenfreude, ie. - enjoyment at another's misfortune that they caused to themselves (most likely through sheer stupidity).
Hat:
what the fuck is with you germans and your goddamned complex compound words WHAT THE HELL
Dliessmgg:
--- Quote from: cerement on 13 Sep 2009, 16:37 ---Okay, with all the armchair linguists in this thread, maybe someone could answer a question I've had for a long time.
Schadenfreude (or at least the English borrowed form) is pretty general, "enjoyment at another's misfortune". But it doesn't differentiate between pranks, acts-of-god, self-caused, or other. We've got an over-specific "Darwin award" for those who've self-caused their misfortune severely enough to remove themselves from breeding.
What I've been looking for is a word (preferably, but not necessarily in German) that would describe a reflexive form of schadenfreude, ie. - enjoyment at another's misfortune that they caused to themselves (most likely through sheer stupidity).
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I don't think there's a word for this, but you can take any word for a misfortune that they caused themselves and combine it with -freude, for example Sadofreude or Darwinfreude.
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