A fantastic word to sprinkle in whenever discussing world events or politics.
Comment on Elon Musk on X antisemitism controversy: “Don’t advertise. Go f*** yourself”
MycoBro@lemmy.world 11 months agoschadenfreude.googled it. Adding it to my lexicon. Gonna be a challenge to learn it by a few days of overuse but I’ll manage.
assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Buffalox@lemmy.world 11 months ago
To me it’s such a cool word, because I live in Denmark, and the German word adopted among English speaker is near identical to the Danish equivalent “skadefryd”.
Maybe not obvious from the spelling for someone not familiar with both German and Danish.
It’s funny when words spread between languages. Not just new words, but old words that describe concepts.
Schadenfreude is a very nice to have in your vocabulary, but if you want something even better, you should absolutely have “hygge” too, that’s an even better word, and that’s 100% danish. 😀
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygge
The article says it’s also Norwegian, which is true, but we were originally 1 nation, and I’m probably a little bit biased in that regard.