Schadenfreude
If you're a copywriter, you should know how to spell it. If you're an Art
Director - well, you should just know when it looks funny. But all creatives
should know what it means.
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5 Comments:
You should know that the word is capitalized because of the German grammatical convention of capitalizing all common nouns in addition to proper nouns.
3:42 pm NZDT
Word
11:04 pm NZDT
It is spelled Shaudenfreude in German I believe.
5:55 pm NZDT
Nope, Schadenfreude it is.
2:03 pm NZDT
Anon 3, you would be an art director, right?
3:06 pm NZDT
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