Look them both up in Wikipedia.
I felt that since schadenfreude is such a deservedly popular word here, I'd just add another dart to the arsenal.
1 posted on
05/15/2008 2:14:15 PM PDT by
chesley
To: chesley
The spirit of William F. Buckley blesses you.
Great word.
2 posted on
05/15/2008 2:47:35 PM PDT by
Valpal1
(OW! My head just exploded!)
To: chesley; PJ-Comix
But without
schadenfreude, there'd be no
3 posted on
05/15/2008 2:54:32 PM PDT by
Paul Heinzman
(Out of chaos comes comedy.)
To: chesley
I happened to have looked up the same thing myself a few days ago. I think the German version sounds better.
4 posted on
05/15/2008 3:44:32 PM PDT by
Nateman
(You only need to fool half of them once every two years.)
To: chesley
Thanks for the word. Not for the first time has there been a need to expand our vocabulary to explain our societal perplexities.
Here is such a word for today. A favorite of KSFO's Lee Rodgers, kakistocracy.
It definitely is right for today. It means "Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens."
Now if there is a word that means the act of "projecting" your own faults onto others and heaping contempt and contumely upon them for their imagined faults -- then we'd have a neat word to describe liberals. Not ideological leftists, liberals. The leftists know what they are doing.
5 posted on
05/15/2008 4:55:40 PM PDT by
WilliamofCarmichael
(If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
To: chesley
“Lachen heißt: schadenfroh sein, aber mit gutem Gewissen”
(Nietzsche)
6 posted on
05/15/2008 6:50:37 PM PDT by
Domestic Church
(AMDG..."Humour is just Schadenfreude with a clear conscience.")
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