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[reebert]

I suffer from "skadeglädje". Do we even have a word for that in English? The words the dictionary gives don't seem quite right: malice, gloat, spitefulness. It's when you laugh at someone's pain, not with a cruel intent. More like when someone trips and falls and the falling itself was terrifically funny even though the after math wasn't. I

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[e11en]

Schadenfreude, perhaps? Which, admittedly, is a German word but it's used in English.

[blue_eyed_girl]

That's what I was going to say ... Olof never wants to believe me, but the English word *is* schadenfreude. :D

Though, I have to admit, I do think that it does have a malicious feel to it (in both Swedish and English).

[reebert]

Ok. Hmm...I've never heard that word! haha