schadenfreude

Hartmut Haberland hartmut at EMMA.RUC.DK
Tue May 6 14:12:19 UTC 1997


Deborah's banana peel example is excellent and covers exactly my (after 23
years in Denmark still native, I hope) German intuitions. I talked to a
Danish colleague about this and he said that Danish skadefryd certainly
wouldn't cover the feelings expressed by Schadenfreude in this context.
Hartmut



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