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This gave me schadenfreude... Is it bad to feel schadenfreude?

chat what is the German word for person who feels guilty for feeling schadenfreude

im sure it is a spectacular word

Schadenfreude literally means "shameful joy", so it's kind of built into the word itself. Someone who doesn't feel at least a little tinge of wrongness is someone who's broken.

No it does not mean that. It's not "shameful joy". It's joy at someone else's misfortune.

"Schaden" means literally "harm". "Schamfreude" or "Beschaemende Freute" would be "shameful joy", but that's not a word or expression that anyone uses.

Huh, that makes more sense, thanks. Whodathunk that The Simpsons wasn't an authority on translation? Let down again... :-/

> It's joy at someone else's misfortune.

A pretty negative view towards fellow humans.

As the old saying goes, comedy is when someone else walks into the open manhole.

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