http://blog.oup.com/2008/11/winning_words/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:48:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.oup.com/2008/11/winning_words/comment-page-1/#comment-149165 Ollie Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:31:17 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=2276#comment-149165 Why use the German word when we already have a perfectly good (and much better sounding) word with the same meaning? Epicaricacy is the English equivalent of schadenfreude. Why use the German word when we already have a perfectly good (and much better sounding) word with the same meaning? Epicaricacy is the English equivalent of schadenfreude.

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2008/11/winning_words/comment-page-1/#comment-147943 mollymooly Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:52:15 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=2276#comment-147943 'Schadenfreude' is the classic "the Germans have a word for everything" word; those malign Germans must have suppressed this sense of 'malign'. ‘Schadenfreude’ is the classic “the Germans have a word for everything” word; those malign Germans must have suppressed this sense of ‘malign’.

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