• AllonzeeLV
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    2 years ago

    As an American, I am in perpetual shock that schadenfreude doesn’t have an English analog.

    It’s literally our most universal core societal value here and we don’t even have a word for it.

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      2 years ago

      It does have an English analog, it’s schadenfreude. Like many (most?) English words, it’s been adopted.

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        2 years ago

        Well, English is a Germanic language.