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by StanAngeloff 214 days ago
Schadenfreude
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Nah, that's delight in someone else's misfortune. This is delight that the misfortune wasn't yours, which is slightly different.
4 years of German and I still don't quite "get" it :^) TY!
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Not quite, that’s more like taking pleasure in the misfortune of someone else. It’s close, but the specific relief bit that it is not _your_ misfortune is not captured
Internettet er vist ikke så stort :-)
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