WOTY candidate: schadenfreude

[Mark Mandel]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> At 4/11/2008 11:03 AM, Amy West wrote:
>  >But the beauty of "Spitzenfreude" over
>  >"blondenfreude" or "Bushenfreude" is that it's
>  >another Germanic root. It's almost a seamless
>  >alteration. I really like it. Frankenfreude is
>  >pretty good, too.
>
>  Isn't Blonden sufficiently Germanic and seamless for you?  (Unless
>  you insist on Blondine over Blonde for the feminine.)

She said "Germanic", not "German". German borrowed it from French (or
another Romance language), just as we did.

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Mark Mandel

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