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Nobody: ... Influencers in Dubai: (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 32 points 5 months ago (6 children)

As someone who grew up in Dubai you have no idea how much schadenfreude I am feeling right now!

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  • [–] [S] 17 points 5 months ago* (5 children)

    In case someone does not know what does the word mean.

    Schadenfreude: The experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another. Schadenfreude is a loanword from German. The closest word in English would be gloat. Schadenfreude has been detected in children as young as 24 months and may be an important social emotion establishing "inequity aversion".

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    The Dutch word for it is "leedvermaak", incidentally.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    God I love Dutch.

    You look at it, and you think, if I stare at this long enough, I can make it out. Most of the words are about the same size, and there has to be some Latin bases here and there...

    nope...

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Hehe, I'm married to a Dutch woman. I'm an American of non-European descent, for context.

    I speak Gujarati and Spanish and a smidge of Hindi and Japanese, other than English. She speaks Dutch, Danish, German, and English.

    When I moved to the Netherlands, I told her "We both know something about languages. I have to say this: speaking Dutch is like speaking German while spitting out your teeth after someone punched you in the mouth."

    She answered back, and I'm paraphrasing, "Tja, het is wel toepasselijk dat "Dutch Directness" het eerste is wat jij onder de knie hebt, jij Amerikaanse betweter."

    "Schat, dat is wel het meest diplomatieke wat ik vandaag had kunnen zeggen, gezien de daden van de VOC in het land van mijn voorouders."

    "Touché!"

    "Jazeker!"

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