Schadenfreude is a German word meaning ‘pleasure taken from someone else’s misfortune.’ It has been borrowed by the English language[1] and is sometimes also used as a loanword by other languages. It derives from Schaden (damage, harm) and Freude (joy); Schaden derives from the Middle High German schade, from the Old High German scado, and freude comes from the Middle High German vreude, from the Old High German frewida, from frō, (happy). In German, the word always carries a negative connotation. A distinction exists between “secret schadenfreude” (a private feeling) and “open schadenfreude” (Hohn).
Usually, it is believed that Schadenfreude has no direct English equivalent. For example, Harper Collins German-English Dictionary translates schadenfreude as “malicious glee or gloating.” An apparent English equivalent is epicaricacy, derived from the Greek word επιχαιρεκακία, epichaerecacia. This word does not appear in most modern dictionaries, but does appear in Nathaniel Bailey‘s Universal Etymological English Dictionary (1727) under a slightly different spelling (epicharikaky), which gives its etymology as a compound of epi (upon), chara (joy), and kakon (evil).
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Huh?? what was that? What great news at the Tribunal did you think I meant?? 🙂
8 NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP
RICK ASTLEY
He had a booming bass voice for a pretty weiny looking guy
Lesson for the inexperienced…. (namely me!)
Always have a back up.
This morning at church for some inexplicapable reason our main presentation computer started operating at close to 100% cpu capacity. This meant our presentation software would not work effectively.
I had to grab my laptop from the office and type in lyrics for the songs, on the fly……
sigh…….
Need to make sure that from now on we have a secondary computer with the service schedhule all ready to go.
And I need to find out why on earth my main computer is being a pain in the…. butt.
1. Freo, great win last night, Pav and Tarrant are working really well together. Hasleby is back to his best, Sandilands keeps getting more dominant, Bell is playing as good as he ever did when with the Roos. Great to see Peake back…. my favourite player.
2. I expect Johnson to get done by the tribunal, because thats what they do, make examples of Freo players, even if he was looking at the ball, and the Saints player was pushed onto his arm
3. West Coast are playing like front runners at the moment, and they really miss Kerr.
4. Judd should get done for eye gouging, but probably wont, see point 2
5. Its a great weekend when Freo win and the Weagles lose….(ha ha ha!!)
(Ps I tipped the Hawks to win!!)
