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American Schadenfreude (Not Exactly An Oxymoron, But ….)

IDEAS Posted: May 23, 2014 12:28 am

“What I find interesting is that no such word or phrase exists in American English. … Certainly, there is no piecing together ‘shame’ and ‘joy’ to make ‘shamejoy,’ as in German. Shame and joy are antithetical, distant, never meant to share the same bed. That’s because schadenfreude does not square with America’s national obsession with the comeback story.”

IDEAS Published: 05.21.14

Read the story in The Morning News Published: 05.21.14

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