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Guerrero

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I'm not sure I spelled it right,but it is my favourite word in the world.
It is German,and means enjoying the failure or lack of success of someone or something that you don't like.
So if BHA lose,you still feel OK if Palace lose.Or if your neighbour you don't get on with has piles.
We don't have a word for it in the English language,and we should have.
We should invent one.

 

PC-Gull

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• Aug 20, 2013

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I learned this word from an episode of Boston Legal. I agree with you, it is a great word and ever present in our world today.

 

Herr Tubthumper

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Futterneid is a favourite of mine. No English word for this either. I often have Futterneid

 

Titanic

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Herr Tubthumper said:

Futterneid is a favourite of mine. No English word for this either. I often have Futterneid

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You chose it... you eat it. This is MINE!

 

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Guerrero said:

I'm not sure I spelled it right,but it is my favourite word in the world.
It is German,and means enjoying the failure or lack of success of someone or something that you don't like.
So if BHA lose,you still feel OK if Palace lose.Or if your neighbour you don't get on with has piles.
We don't have a word for it in the English language,and we should have.
We should invent one.

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We do: Epicaricacy

 

Coldeanseagull

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• Aug 20, 2013

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For god sake, why do you want to put more foreign words into everyday english? We don't need it, it has it's own je ne sais quoi!

 

Herr Tubthumper

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Titanic said:

You chose it... you eat it. This is MINE!

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You sound like the Frau

 

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Guerrero

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Not a word I have heard of

 

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Guerrero said:

Not a word I have heard of

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It literally translates as "shameful joy" - ie: finding joy in the misfortunes of others.

 

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Guerrero

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I do that every day without fail.

 

Icy Gull

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It will hopefully be part of my MOTD enjoyment this season, in fact it better be because I have hardly watched it for years

 

Herr Tubthumper

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Guerrero said:

Not a word I have heard of

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Food envy. It doesn't have a literal translation or an English equivalent.

 

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As we pronounce this in our heads it's worth remembering that an 'e' at the end of a German word mean that the final syllable is 'er'. As in Porsche.

But it is a nice word and it's good to have another foreign one in our language. Reminds me of the fact the English doesn't really have a word for an establishment designed to cater for people wanting to go out for a meal.

 

Trufflehound

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• Aug 21, 2013

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Lincoln Imp said:

Reminds me of the fact the English doesn't really have a word for an establishment designed to cater for people wanting to go out for a meal.

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Wimpy?

 

tinycowboy

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• Aug 21, 2013

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German has loads of these:

Weltschmerz, Wanderlust, etc, but also some less common ones:

Übermorgen - the day after tomorrow
Vorgestern - the day before yesterday
Schreibfaul - to be lazy at writing letters
Fremdscham - embarrassed on someone else's behalf
Torschlusspanik - panic at the feeling of being left behind as you get older

People may recall from their schooldays that, bizarrely, there is no French word for the verb "to mean"...

 

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MattBackHome

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"Succeeding is not enough. Others must fail." - Gore Vidal (I think?)

Depressing. And I still don't know if it's true.

 

Pbseagull

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Quite a few years ago I had a German boss, who used to use a saying which I think was something like this: "wir tun in unseren Beinen, was nicht in unserem Gehirn"
think it means something along the lines of " you make up for in your legs what you do not have in your brain" probably because I was forever forgetting to collect everything I was supposed to get from the stock room and having to go back for them, in truth I hadn't forgotten but could have a sneaky cigarette on the way back.

 

Acker79

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tinycowboy said:

German has loads of these:

Weltschmerz, Wanderlust, etc, but also some less common ones:

Übermorgen - the day after tomorrow
Vorgestern - the day before yesterday
Schreibfaul - to be lazy at writing letters
Fremdscham - embarrassed on someone else's behalf
Torschlusspanik - panic at the feeling of being left behind as you get older

People may recall from their schooldays that, bizarrely, there is no French word for the verb "to mean"...

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We have one for that: Overmorrow

ereyesterday is now obsolete, but means the day before yesterday.

 

nwgull

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All very well admiring the language, but the Germans have no word for 'fluffy'.