once more unto the breech - please try a snapshot so I can release this thing
Gary R. Van Sickle
g.r.vansickle@worldnet.att.net
Thu Jan 12 04:30:00 GMT 2006
> From: Dave Korn
[snip]
> You know, it occurs to me that the english language lacks -
> but could greatly use - a word meaning
>
> "That especially embarassing combination of shame and
> humiliation you feel on realising that your first instincts
> were absolutely sound and right and good, and you surpressed
> them against your better judgement, and went and trusted what
> others said, instead of your own good sense, only to discover
> in the end that you were right in the first place and should
> have trusted and had faith in yourself but lost confidence at
> the last moment and went along with the consensus when you
> should have known better that YOU WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG
> GODDAMMIT AND YOU ONLY MADE A FOOL OF YOURSELF BECAUSE YOU
> WERE TRYING TO BE NICE TO OTHER PEOPLE AND ASSUME THEY
> WEREN'T ALL GODDAM IDIOTS JUST FOR ONCE!"
>
> ...excuse me, I think I was starting to shout a bit towards
> the end there....
>
> Hey, Corinna, you guys invented "schadenfreude", surely
> /you/ must already have a word for this emotion?
They do, but it's just a concatenation of that entire sentence, just without
spaces or punctuation, like most German words, and hence doesn't fit on a
7x-character line.
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Gary R. Van Sickle
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