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[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] hypelightfly@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

It does have an English analog, it's schadenfreude. Like many (most?) English words, it's been adopted.

[-] FReddit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Well, English is a Germanic language.

[-] aksdb@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

As a German, that makes me schadenfroh.

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