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July 18th, 2006, 06:43 AM
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| I don't get it. If you start including German words ("Schadenfreude")... What's this about? Just "your favourite word of any language"? 
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#10
July 18th, 2006, 10:22 AM
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| ...schadenfreude is an English word, with origins in German.
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July 18th, 2006, 10:37 AM
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| No, schadenfreude is a German word that's been hijacked by the the English language. Most languages steal words from other languages. |
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July 18th, 2006, 10:58 AM
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| Yep. While it's probably found its way into dictionaries that doesn't make it an "English" word. Just like Zeitgeist and kindergarden (although the latter somehow got a "d" instead of a "t" in garden), it's simply a German word. We have lotsa English words in the German language.
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July 18th, 2006, 12:43 PM
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#14
July 18th, 2006, 12:54 PM
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| Detect the smiley.
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July 18th, 2006, 01:47 PM
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| I saw it.
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#16
July 18th, 2006, 02:05 PM
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| Ah, well the smiley was just a little blue square with a "?" in it here, I blame the revision of the site! ;-) As for favorite word, today I am particularly fond of 'fettle' don't know way. ... my Mac appears to be in fine fettle today.
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