Lucy Mangan learns some new words from the Greek Orthodox Church, as well as a new type of pasta
So, it looks like there may be an English word for schadenfreude after all. According to WritersCramp, it’s ‘epicaricacy‘ and covers the same convulsion of joy in another’s misfortune that the Teutonic loan does. What we lose in “Tuh – trust the Germans to… Read More
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