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0 pointsjunto11y ago0 comments

Lol. Yes and garbage collection.

Funnily enough I'm now at the stage where certain German expressions and mannerisms have started to surplant my native British English ones. Germans often have one word for something where in English you need a whole sentence. Somehow these words creep into your vocabulary and merge across the language boundaries.

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jacquesm11y ago· 2 in thread

'schadenfreude'.

pbhjpbhj11y ago

Epicaricacy.

jacquesm11y ago

Good luck using that in everyday light conversation. The required explanation will likely be longer than if you had used 'schadenfreude' in an English conversation!

And 'Epicaricacy' fortunately doesn't sound nearly as trendy and intellectual as a German word would.

pbhjpbhj11y ago

>Germans often have one word for something where in English you need a whole sentence. //

Something tells me there's a word for that, concision (or brevity or conciseness). But something auf Deutsch would me more trendy and intellectual sounding ...

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