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[flaming-tyger.livejournal.com]

schadenfreude-noun  [shahd-n-froi-duh]
satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/schadenfreude

When his former boss, who had fired him, got charged with embezzlement, it was the ultimate schadenfreude.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/__lys_fleurx__/]

there's a song about that.

[adrias-silver.livejournal.com]

http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/avenueq/schadenfreude.htm

This is one of my favorite words EVER.

[cobraqueen-22.livejournal.com]

"To say... Schadenfreude for malicious pleasure, oeuvre for work, alma mater (except with strong extenuating circumstances) for University—is pretension and nothing else."
--H.W. Fowler, _The King's English_

Maybe in his opinion. I love it.
Perhaps it's just my German heritage coming through.

[missus-madness.livejournal.com]

Oh, lord, from Avenue Q.

Beautiful!

[flggnmllyrmnsdk.livejournal.com]

I do believe it's more pronounced, "Shaud-n-froid", but that may just be the englishization (totally not a word) of it.

[gardenista.livejournal.com]

Pretty sure the 'duh' sound at the end is the true German.

Here's dictionary.com's entry:
http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2000/05/10.html (http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2000/05/10.html)

schadenfreude \SHOD-n-froy-duh\, noun:
A malicious satisfaction obtained from the misfortunes of others.

[yhaythar.livejournal.com]

It must be, considering that in the German language, every letter is pronounced. :D

[sorrowis-stupid.livejournal.com]

You're right, gotta have that last 'duh'.

[teir-garten.livejournal.com]

I had a band way back when with that name.

[lorifran57.livejournal.com]

HOT DAMN I know that word!!!

It came up a year ago in a report at a school and we were all trying to decipher it until I went online and then came the problem of saying it correctly.

The entire administration was looking and I found the definition.

The problem had been that it wasn't spelled correctly originally from where we got the word.

[sing3prima.livejournal.com]

omg, I really need that word! I can't even begin to tell you how much that word *perfectly* describes my family.

[rainbow-yarn.livejournal.com]

It's the schadenfreude polka, the schadenfreude polka, it's-- the schadenfreude polkaaaa!!!!

~Pinky and the Brain


XD

[unhipster.livejournal.com]

One of my favorite words.

[badmadnad.livejournal.com]

I'm a native in German and never knew that the actual German word was also used in English - cool:)

[misaseba.livejournal.com]

Yupp, I was surprised, too. XDDDD I was all: O_O What? You can use that word in English as well? XDD

[theidolhands.livejournal.com]

There is also Farfegnugen (thanks to VW) and Gemütlichkeit (but the way it is used varies).

[badmadnad.livejournal.com]

And what is Farfegnungen supposed to be? This word doesn't exist in German ;o)

[theidolhands.livejournal.com]

American's use it to mean silly things but according to my teacher it was a combined word, as the Germans allow people to be more flexible with language than English, that loosely translated to "the joy of driving (traveling)".a

[sorrowis-stupid.livejournal.com]

Oh, maybe it's supposed to be something like "Fahrvergnügen", which would literally be "driving-pleasure".

*claps*

[theidolhands.livejournal.com]

Best word I've seen in a while. I'm of German decent and I like the word but I also had to laugh that it is in fact a German word. Sometimes English fails at words that describe emotion.

[disjointedsmurf.livejournal.com]

FINALLY! People used to use that word in my class ALL the time, we even spent a lecture discussing the word I think.
Long story short: I never understood what it ment, and now I do!

[simone-kittie.livejournal.com]

i have a fever and yet i am so cold that when i shiver it aches, nothing makes me feel warm, im paler than the dead, my head is pounding.. i hope no one feels that way about me...

[jmpierce.livejournal.com]

Having had yet another truly miserable day, I took a little private schadenfreude in watching a woman's just-dropped groceries get run over by a car as I walked home from work.

[to-serenity.livejournal.com]

I found this example in Lingvo
For a Russian there is a curious fascination, mixed with Schadenfreude, about titles and honours lists.

I am from Russia and I don't understand, why they think so....