schadenfreude

[Patrick Griffiths]

Not translation equivalents, but related are:

        [pleasure in others getting]
                their comeuppance
                just desserts

and maybe also
        [pleasure in others receiving]
                condign punishment

Best wishes

Patrick

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Dr Patrick Griffiths
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
Department of Literature & Language
University of the South Pacific
P O Box 1168
Suva
Fiji

Telephone:  (+679) 212314
Fax:        (+679) 305053 (must bear my name to be sure of reaching me)
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The University of the South Pacific  is the university of twelve island
countries:  Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue,
Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Western Samoa.    The
main campus is located in Suva,  the capital of Fiji (on Vitilevu,  the
largest of Fiji's 300+ islands),  but there are regional centres in all
but one of the countries served.   There are on-campus students as well
as large numbers enrolled for distance learning.