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To: Right Wing It

We do have a word for it. It's "schadenfreude", this is English, any time we run into a good word in another language we just steal it.


4 posted on 03/03/2005 10:25:31 AM PST by discostu (quis custodiet ipsos custodes)
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To: discostu
We do have a word for it. It's "schadenfreude", this is English, any time we run into a good word in another language we just steal it.

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
--James D. Nicoll

254 posted on 03/03/2005 11:49:05 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (Am Yisrael Chai!)
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