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To: blackdog

RE: Schadenfreude jamboree.

A word that applies to me often, of course.
I’m not soft on crime.

Still amazing that the English language had to borrow that wonderful word from elsewhere.


35 posted on 11/21/2022 5:30:30 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: frank ballenger

The German language has a way of expressing an exacting summary judgment. It’s quite wonderful.


39 posted on 11/21/2022 5:43:14 PM PST by blackdog (The head, hands, and heart, serve even further than the purse. )
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To: frank ballenger

Well, there is an English language equivalent but Schadenfreude is easier than “hoisted on his own petard.


80 posted on 11/22/2022 4:45:56 AM PST by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: frank ballenger
Still amazing that the English language had to borrow that wonderful word from elsewhere.

English has always been a bastard tongue, borrowing from German, French, Latin, Celt, Briton, Saxon, Japanese, science fiction....you name it, we'll adopt it.

89 posted on 11/22/2022 5:09:06 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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