Series G Episode 8

bombmaniac · 751900. Thu Oct 14, 2010 9:28 am

in series G episode 8 it was stated that there was no english equivalent of the german word "schadenfreude". i would beg to differ. there is in fact an english word "epicaricacy" which is the derivation of pleasure from the pain or suffering of others. below is a link to the wiktionary page.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/epicaricacy

mckeonj · 751930. Thu Oct 14, 2010 11:20 am

Not in our pub it ain't.

samivel · 752003. Thu Oct 14, 2010 5:39 pm

OK, but from that very same Wiktionary link

Zebra57 · 752009. Thu Oct 14, 2010 6:03 pm

There are many words that can be dusted off large volume dictionaries. The fact is that the german word is in current use but the word epicaricacy is not (at least on this side of the water)
Words such as:
algerings
ivels
and
pyknic
also exist but have little common use today

Celebaelin · 752013. Thu Oct 14, 2010 6:09 pm

Zeitgeist anyone?

Incidentally that doesn't get picked up by my/the spell checker for this site.

Schadenfreude.

But that does!

bombmaniac · 752049. Thu Oct 14, 2010 11:08 pm

I am aware that epicaricacy is a rare word, however QI is about finding obscure interestingness.