From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4814 invoked by alias); 12 Jan 2006 04:30:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 4801 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Jan 2006 04:30:45 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net (HELO mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net) (204.127.131.117) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 04:30:44 +0000 Received: from dfw5rb41 (h-68-165-187-105.chcgilgm.dynamic.covad.net[68.165.187.105]) by worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc13) with SMTP id <20060112043042113005voike>; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 04:30:42 +0000 From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" To: "'The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List'" Subject: RE: once more unto the breech - please try a snapshot so I can release this thing Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 04:30:00 -0000 Message-ID: <001001c61730$f2b14250$020aa8c0@DFW5RB41> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List X-SW-Source: 2006-q1/txt/msg00037.txt.bz2 > 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. -- Gary R. Van Sickle