Jul 6, 2009
A summer vocab lesson: Schadenfreude
The real joy of tubing is in the boat, not behind it.
Watching someone else careen helplessly, bouncingly along provides unadulterated schadenfreude.
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I agree! What a ride in the tube! Skis are much better!
Thanks for the vocab lesson… and object lesson.
Dark.
And when they wave at you, grip on as tightly as you can because the driver is about to take a sharp curve hoping to flip you over. I always see it as a challenge – give it your best shot!
But it yields awfully sore arms next morning…
I’m so excited that I already knew what this word meant.
In that case, you may be ready for the next lesson: “Schadenfreude ist die schönste Freude.”
It’s a German saying I don’t agree with (meaning, “schadenfreude is the best kind of joy”), but which just seems to fit here.
Hearing the word makes me think of this song from Avenue Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCQGQ5qBQTA
Unfortunately, my (your) schadenfreude has caused me to be in much pain today.
I was just reminded of another great German borrowing today: Bildungsroman
great. i have a new words to describe why i always laugh the hardest when someone falls while watching funniest home videos.
I used to have a roommate who laughed so hysterically at all the falling videos! I usually never laughed at the videos; I laughed at *her* laughing at the videos.