S-c-h-a-d- ... oh, brother, this word is a tricky one

The Virginian-Pilot ^ | 6/11/05 | Kerry Dougherty

[SlowBoat407]

The word is spreading!! I'm surprised she didn't mention FR, though.

[Calpernia]

Schadenfreude Bump!

[KarlInOhio]

In short, schadenfreude was verboten. Verboten wasn’t verboten. Neither was “angst,” nor a bevy of words borrowed from foreign languages. Decolletage? Derriere? Carte blanche? Carpe diem? Gesundheit? All acceptable.

Even children in kindergarten learn about schadenfreude.

[WVNan]

Now that I know what it means, I'd like to know how to pronounce it.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[Calpernia]

LOL! Me too!

[leadpenny]

. . . kindergarten . . .

:)

[Physicist]

SHOD-en-froy-duh

[papertyger]

Then I devised a plan. I’d sneak the word into a quote, with questions like this: “Would you say this whole thing reeks of s chadenfreude?” Unfortunately, most of the people I talk to are council members, cranks and kooks. “Huh?” they’d reply.

Inadvertent insight into how the mind of a journalist works!

[KarlInOhio]

Now that I know what it means, I'd like to know how to pronounce it.

shah-dun-froy-duh. Accents on the shah and froy.

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=schadenfreude

Click on the little speaker to hear it.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I'd like to know how to pronounce it.

Like "SHODD-en-froy-duh". Don't shout the first syllable, but do stress it.

[papertyger]

SHAY-den-froid-ah

[papertyger]

You must be a Yankee ;o>

[struwwelpeter]

It tells you something about a culture when it has a single word to describe something complex. Of course, Germans could product a single word of twenty-nine syllables to describe pretty much anything.

Then there's Russian, with long tongue twisters for everything, until you get to a two letter word for cabbage soup.

[KarlInOhio]

Of course, Germans could product a single word of twenty-nine syllables to describe pretty much anything.

Germans just love compound words, which they string together like so many sausages. It is one of the wurst features of their language.

[Husker24]

Leave it to the Germans to come up with one word for, "the enjoyment of someone else's suffering"

[wildwood]

i've been feeling intense schadenfreude every time i watch howard dean open his mouth, screaming invectives and revealing the soul of the demo party.

every time i hear glen beck play the audio of hillary shrieking at that convention, i revel in anticipation of her presidential campaign.

awaiting the publication of "Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine," schadenfreude, though unsolicited, beckons me, whispering seductively in my ear, "pain, misery, punishment will walk hand in hand with those who ruined the lives of those less powerful.

schadenfreude. a word i learned in the nineties.

[jimfree]

The lone a in German is pronouced ah.

[Husker24]

I was looking through a friend of mine's German book in High School, and couldn't believe the size of some of the words in there. They actually had one huge word for, "could you please hold on, and wait for another line, this one is busy"

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The lone a in German is pronouced ah.

I, sir, prefer to pronounce it the 'Merican way, thank you!