German is like that. Someone once suggested that it was created by an overly-pedantic two-year-old whose parents had died after teaching him all the one-syllable words. I was just thinking about this because I saw a thimble, which is Fingerhut (finger-hat) in German.
I think Schadenfreude means, literally, shame-happiness.
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Date: 2006-02-14 04:01 pm (UTC)I think Schadenfreude means, literally, shame-happiness.