shardenfroyder !?

[mindbullets]

havent got a clue how to spell it ,but what does it mean ?

[FredPuli]

Schadenfreude . It means "Malicious enjoyment of another's misfortune". Why we have no English word for it ( if we don't ) who knows? The word 'gloating' is pretty close to it though..

[sft42]

Yes...was given the translation once before as "shameful joy"....for a nauseating example of this click here question 37678

[Phantaxus]

I knew the answer to that one. I learnt it from an episode of the Simpsons!

[FredPuli]

Shameful joy? . The German is from two words which don't themselves suggest any guilt . Ah, these Germans and their language! Schaden means harm and Freude means joy. Now I think about it, masochism is from an Austrian novelist's name; he described it in some detail. Seems like a variant of the concept :)