Since this is MPSIMS I’ll post this here. It’s pretty mundane and pointless.
I’ve read the word schadenfreude more times on this board in the last month than I’ve read or heard in my entire life. Sheesh! It’s starting to sound really pretentious and I’m beginning to roll my eyes every time I come across it.
That is all.
I hadn’t noticed but now I will… um…thanks.
Yeah – why use a hifalutin’ foreign word when we have perfectly good English word for it. You known, …uh…
I’m revelling in your misfortune.
I haven’t noticed either.
Do all loanwords make you roll your eyes? Should we go back to taking pleasure in others’ misfortune while seated in the outdoor dining area of a restaurant or cafe and eating desserts consisting of ice cream and various toppings?
I hadn’t noticed but now I will… um…thanks.
It’s Karma.
What do you expect when you kibitz? A deus ex machina?
Ha, that’s put you in zugswang!
Fer chrissakes.
Hey folks, no need to be snarky. There’s a reason I didn’t put it in the pit, because it’s just something that’s made my eye twitch lately. I never noticed it before, then BAM! It just seems like everyday I come on the Dope there’s another “schadenfreude”. A schadenfreude here, a schadenfreude there.
And yes, everytime I’ve come across it, I’ve thought “well, what other word can be used? English doesn’t have a concise word”.
The German language seems to have a word for everything. Remember in the latest national spelling bee, the word heiligenschein (A faint white ring surrounding the shadow of an observer’s head on a dew-covered lawn)? That’s pretty specific.
Ah, forget it. I just don’t have the MPSIMS knack.
I don’t think you quite got the gestalt of jjimm’s post.
Perhaps you are failing to understand the gestalt here. Clearly this synchronicity is designed to permit you the opportunity to exam the schadenfreude that currently colours your thinking. How do you feel about that?
I think you missed a certain je ne sais quoi in my post.
The SDMB is snark personified. Be a mensch and rise above it.
<cartman> GODDAMMIT! </cartman>
Took me half an hour.
At least I realized it before I came in here and read the other posts.
Sheesh!
It isn’t just the Dope; it’s everywhere.
It isn’t that it’s a loan word; it’s that it was nowhere, and now it’s everywhere. It’s as annoying as when everybody at work started saying, “At the end of the day, what’s your net-net?”
I guess that in your weltanschauung, using long German loanwords makes someone sound pretentious. Well, get with the zeitgheist, sister - everybody’s doing it! Sounds like you’re full of weltschmerz. Lets hope this thread doesn’t get moved to the pit, or suddenly it’ll be all sturm und drang!
Oh, I learned it in kindergarten.
I defy you to listen to that song from Avenue Q and not fall in love with that word.
Yes; whenever it’s painfully clear what’s been on society’s Word A Day calendar recently, the word gets awfully tiresome.
I can’t tell you how much I enjoy reading of your unhappiness.
Is there a word for that?
Last year I proposed that schadenfreude’s best English equivalent is glee.
Instead, the thread bogged down in the usual SDMB nitpickery and picayune bickering.
Lurrve the Dope!