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>I can't help enjoying some good schadenfreude

Fun facts schadenfreude: the emotional experience of pleasure in response to another’s misfortune, according to Encyclopedia Britannica.

Word that's so nasty in meaning that it apparently does not exist except in German language.



> Word that's so nasty in meaning that it apparently does not exist except in German language.

Except it does, we have "skadeglädje" in Swedish.


+1 to the Germans for having linguist honesty.


It just means 'shameful happiness'.


злорадство in Russian




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