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minus-squareblinfabian@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agois there really no english word for leedvermaak? as a dutch guy that is strange
minus-squareLePoisson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 days agoAs a dirty American, we just borrow schadenfreude from German usually in my experience. There are English phrases that approximate it - like “taking enjoyment in another’s misery” but not really a word, at least one I can think of.
minus-squareblinfabian@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·2 days agojust translate it literally and adopt it as an official english word: Miseryentertainment
minus-squarePlexSheep@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agoYo can even put a dash in-between the two parts to hide the fact that you stole superior German grammar
minus-squarelaut_sprecher@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoOr just go the neologism way that english loves: misertainment
minus-square5too@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoEh, that seems to suggest it’s entertainment for or about misers, rather than misery
is there really no english word for leedvermaak? as a dutch guy that is strange
As a dirty American, we just borrow schadenfreude from German usually in my experience.
There are English phrases that approximate it - like “taking enjoyment in another’s misery” but not really a word, at least one I can think of.
just translate it literally and adopt it as an official english word: Miseryentertainment
Yo can even put a dash in-between the two parts to hide the fact that you stole superior German grammar
Or just go the neologism way that english loves: misertainment
Eh, that seems to suggest it’s entertainment for or about misers, rather than misery