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minus-squareAllonzeeLV@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·11 months agoAs 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.
minus-squarehypelightfly@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down1·11 months agoIt does have an English analog, it’s schadenfreude. Like many (most?) English words, it’s been adopted.
minus-squareFReddit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·11 months agoWell, English is a Germanic language.
minus-squareaksdb@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·11 months agoAs a German, that makes me schadenfroh.
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.
It does have an English analog, it’s schadenfreude. Like many (most?) English words, it’s been adopted.
Well, English is a Germanic language.
As a German, that makes me schadenfroh.