points by onemoresoop 15 hours ago | 0 comments
This gave me schadenfreude... Is it bad to feel schadenfreude?
[–] zzzeek 14 hours ago
[–] chuckadams 13 hours ago
Schadenfreude literally means "shameful joy", so it's kind of built into the word itself. Someone who doesn't feel at least a little tinge of wrongness is someone who's broken.
[–] chihuahua 13 hours ago
No it does not mean that. It's not "shameful joy". It's joy at someone else's misfortune.
"Schaden" means literally "harm". "Schamfreude" or "Beschaemende Freute" would be "shameful joy", but that's not a word or expression that anyone uses.
im sure it is a spectacular word