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whit 2012-02-04 17:08
useful
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marol 2012-02-04 17:07
långkallsonger - long underwear
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whit 2012-02-04 16:47
haha
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marol 2012-02-04 16:46
långsökt - far-fetched
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whit 2012-02-03 23:39
but not me, cause I am cool
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whit 2012-02-03 23:39
people generally miss the last accent all together
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whit 2012-02-03 23:38
i generally her shahd-in-frood
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whit 2012-02-03 23:38
nothing like german with US midwest accent
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pxl 2012-02-03 23:38
Nw that's English :)
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pxl 2012-02-03 23:37
Shade-and-froy-duh
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whit 2012-02-03 23:37
we english it up
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whit 2012-02-03 23:37
pish
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pxl 2012-02-03 23:37
Terminator like
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pxl 2012-02-03 23:37
Because German sounds really weird mid-English.
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whit 2012-02-03 23:37
why not a german word instead of a greek one?
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pxl 2012-02-03 23:36
It's because people somehow got used to the German word instead of the English one
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whit 2012-02-03 23:36
but schadenfreude is used here
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pxl 2012-02-03 23:36
It should be.
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pxl 2012-02-03 23:36
Yeah, sure we do
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whit 2012-02-03 23:36
epicaricacy is not used
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whit 2012-02-03 23:36
but do you use them now?
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pxl 2012-02-03 23:35
Well, schadenfreude/skadeglädje are old words as well.
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whit 2012-02-03 23:32
spelling as "epicaricacy"
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whit 2012-02-03 23:32
Little-used English words synonymous with schadenfreude have been derived from the Greek word epichairekakia (ἐπιχαιρεκακία).[2][3] Nathan Bailey's 18th-century Universal Etymological English Dictionary, for example, contains an entry for epicharikaky that gives its etymology as a compound of ἐπί epi (upon), χαρά chara (joy), and κακόν kakon (evil).[4][5] A popular modern collection of rare words, however, gives its
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whit 2012-02-03 23:32
from wikipedia