Favorite chance misspelling of the day:
I allowed myself a bit of shardenfreud at this news, but I’ll really rejoice when…
Right now, I get 23 hits for shardenfreud. Not common, but not unprecedented either.
Picking up new words from context is hard enough; picking up new words in foreign languages the phonetics and orthography of which you have no knowledge is harder yet, and makes for all kinds of wonderful misunderstandings and buggered renderings. So this sort of thing is pretty understandable, even if it makes me smile.
(As a kid, I thought that the German affirmative was “yabul”. Yabul, mine air. I am deeply sympathetic.)
Now I’m holding out for a citation that involves “shatner” somehow.
“When Proposition 8 passed, Bill allowed himself a moment of Shatnerfreud when he realized George’s marriage might be annulled.”
YOU TAKEI THAT BACK
And as of now, it’s up to (about) 806, including this here article.
Of course, if this “about” is anything like our furniture insurance company’s “about” 14 days = over 6 months… then… well, it might be a whole lot more common than that.
I assumed it meant “pleasure derived from someone else’s broken glass”.
Google now shows a pre-this-post citation (actually from 2002) of shatnerfreud.
Bang-up work, Detective Plutor.
q, that was my first-blush response too, but I figured the difference between “freude” and “Freud, Sigmund” was worth calling out in translation.
Just fyi, it would appear that Garkov is down:
Content-type: text/html
DBD::mysql::db do failed: Table ‘garkovdb.strips’ doesn’t exist at index.cgi line 174.
Yeah, it’s having a moment. I’ve half-fixed it, but I need to do some work on the db side of it so Dreamhost will stop getting all :( about the load.