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Schadenfreude


This video is a favorite of the Ford family. They showed it to me and Stef when we spent the night up there a few months ago. I think Sarah enjoys it the most.



Germans have a word for this type of humor: Schadenfreude

Definition:

–noun: satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.

-Origin: 1890–95; < G, equiv. to Schaden harm + Freude joy

See the following links for various pronunciations:

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Online Chat Example:

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@blackbart: lol this guy was showing me his new phone at work the other day

@blackbart: so while i was looking at it i changed his contact entry for his dad to my number

@blackbart: just got a call from him and answered with “hello son, i dont love you and your adopted”

@blackbart: cant stop laughing

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More Real-life Examples of Schadenfreude:







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If you laughed or even smiled at any of this, you just experienced schadenfreude. Thanks to Jess and Topher for helping to keep this term alive here in Utah.
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Comments

  1. Julie TMon Mar 16, 11:12:00 PM MDT

    At first I thought that grape stomper was a joke, the howling she produced sounded like the dog who lost her mate in Where the Red Fern Grows!
    The last photo reminds me of Dad trying hard to re-enter his kayak in La Jolla for a good 10 minutes as his center of balance was just too high! I was experiencing so much schadenfreude in those moments, I was "relieved" I was standing in the Pacific Ocean! :)

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  2. HeatherWed Mar 18, 08:24:00 AM MDT

    This is so ironic as I just came across this German humor term in a book I received for Christmas two weeks back while waiting in the car for ballet to finish.

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  3. NoelleWed Mar 18, 12:32:00 PM MDT

    I studied a bit of that in my humanities classes. Very interesting. I think we had Scheudenfraud when we watched dad go off the water slide in Malaga, Spain, don't you think?

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