[104644] in Cypherpunks
Re: Irony
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vin McLellan)
Sun Oct 25 17:33:01 1998
In-Reply-To: <v03130302b257b11a8ade@[209.66.100.110]>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 12:20:55 -0400
To: cypherpunks@ALGEBRA.COM
From: Vin McLellan <vin@shore.net>
Reply-To: Vin McLellan <vin@shore.net>
Tim May <tcmay@got.net> observered:
>In German we have this concept called "schadenfreude," which basically
>means "delight at the misfortune of others."
>
>Or, more Calvinistically, delight that the chickens have come home to
>roost, that evolution is indeed working, and that people are getting what
>they earned.
Ja, schadenfreude (a true gem of a word) is a appropriate response
to any geldverlegenheit which might bedevil some dummkopf who sneers at a
good-hearted effort to jump a language barrier.
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