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by earthnail 400 days ago
German has a word for second hand embarrassment. Fremdschämen. Comes in very handy here. If Sam continues like this it won’t be long until it becomes part of the regular English language like other German words such as Kindergarten.

And I’ll be happy that I don’t have to explain Fremdschämen anymore. Everything has its upsides.

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> until it becomes part of the regular English language like other German words such as Kindergarten.

or Schadenfreude.