Lumus
Posts: 5968
Joined: 9/16/2007 Status: offline
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: gaggedredhead Here is why gossip, shows like the E channel, publications like the Star, and constant attention to stars exist and always will exit: schadenfreude "malicious joy in the misfortunes of others," 1922, from Ger., lit. "damage-joy," from schaden "damage, harm, injury" (see scathe) + freude, from O.H.G. frewida "joy," from fro "happy," lit. "hopping for joy," from P.Gmc. *frawa- (see frolic). "What a fearful thing is it that any language should have a word expressive of the pleasure which men feel at the calamities of others; for the existence of the word bears testimony to the existence of the thing. And yet in more than one such a word is found. ... In the Greek epikhairekakia, in the Germa Granted. And should we do away with all pain, why, some will never feel joy.
_____________________________
<Talk to educate; listen to learn.> ~ the other half of "L&L" ~ I have been dubbed the Rainmaker. Do not make me take your water for my tribe.
|