Film, Media & TV0 min ago
German word linked to Schadenfreude
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QM, I never intended for a moment to imply you fathered this linguistic monster.
I think we can pin the blame on the linguists who programmed Babelfish. I think the author of the article you quote just entered his made-up "success sadness" in the translation machine and got "Erfolgtraurigkeit".
Garbage in; garbage out.
But Babelfish also falls down with "real" compounds: "success rate" comes out as "Erflograte", again without the filler "s".
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