Comment on AI Used to Promote Non-Existent Evacuation Flights From the Middle East
blinfabian@feddit.nl 9 hours ago
is there really no english word for leedvermaak? as a dutch guy that is strange
Comment on AI Used to Promote Non-Existent Evacuation Flights From the Middle East
blinfabian@feddit.nl 9 hours ago
is there really no english word for leedvermaak? as a dutch guy that is strange
LePoisson@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
As a dirty American, we just borrow schadenfreude from German usually in my experience.
There are English phrases that approximate it - like “taking enjoyment in another’s misery” but not really a word, at least one I can think of.
blinfabian@feddit.nl 9 hours ago
just translate it literally and adopt it as an official english word: Miseryentertainment
PlexSheep@infosec.pub 9 hours ago
Yo can even put a dash in-between the two parts to hide the fact that you stole superior German grammar
laut_sprecher@feddit.org 7 hours ago
Or just go the neologism way that english loves: misertainment