Schadenfreude:– A German word meaning ‘unfeigned glee or sheer delight in the misfortunes of others’. Those clever Germans they have a word for everything don’t they?Perhaps it shows up the failings of our own poor sorry excuse for a language, the one with which Shakespeare, Milton and Tennyson just had to make do and muck on through, but surely it’s a bit of an omission when we don’t have a handy single word to sum up and encapsulate our overwhelming feelings on this sunny Friday morning.
So ladies and gentlemen we give you the World of Spurt’s new Euro 2008 word of the Day, the splendid ‘Schadenfreude’.
Why should that be particularly relevant?
No particular reason, just saying.
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