Should I watch Return of the King? - Shameless attempt to get 100 post count.

[Gatac]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]That's the exact spelling, Sa'ar, but you won't find any German saying more than "Panzer". We're dreadfully complicated in writing, but most people don't talk that way. Well, I do, but only when I deliberately want to confuse someone.

Gatac[/colorost_uid0]

[Nan]

[quoteost_uid0="Sa'ar Chasm"][color=#000000ost_uid0]Bavarians are the Newfies of Germany, but without the fish.[/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0]
[color=#000000ost_uid0]First: [iost_uid0]ouch.[/iost_uid0]

Second: The Newfies are also lacking fish. So that make sthe Bavarians the Newfies of Germany anyway.

To be fair, Newfies are cool. They just have an unfortunate accent.[/colorost_uid0]

[Nan]

[quoteost_uid0="taya17"][color=#000000ost_uid0]...the concept of taking pleasure at another's misfortune...[/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0]
[color=#000000ost_uid0]Ah. Closest thing in English is "sadistic" near as I can tell, but it's not quite exact.[/colorost_uid0]

[Gatac]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]No, definately not. That's taking pleasure in somebody else's pain (and very probably being the cause of it, too); Schadenfreude is just generally about misfortune. Like laughing when somebody slips and lands face-first in the dirt.

Gatac[/colorost_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[quoteost_uid0="Gatac"][color=#000000ost_uid0]No, definately not. That's taking pleasure in somebody else's pain (and very probably being the cause of it, too); Schadenfreude is just generally about misfortune. Like laughing when somebody slips and lands face-first in the dirt.

Gatac[/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0]
[color=#000000ost_uid0]And so I say again, leedvermaak.[/colorost_uid0]

[Sa'ar Chasm]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]According to the Simpsons, the closest English equivalent is "shameful joy."[/colorost_uid0]

[Gatac]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]No, no, no! Schadenfreude does not imply shame for laughing, it's neutral. Shameful joy does not fit that.

Why don't you people just give it up? There IS no English word. Move along home, nothing to see here.

Gatac[/colorost_uid0]

[Nic Corelli]

[quoteost_uid0="Gatac"][color=#000000ost_uid0]Schadenfreude is just generally about misfortune. Like laughing when somebody slips and lands face-first in the dirt.[/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0]
[color=#000000ost_uid0]Ah, but there is an English word for that.

[iost_uid0]Seinfeld[/iost_uid0]. [/colorost_uid0]

[catalina_marina]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Babelfish gives [iost_uid0]damage joy[/iost_uid0]. :lol:[/colorost_uid0]