RE: 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>]

> From: * *
> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 11:20 PM
> To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List
> Subject: Re: once more unto the breech - please try a 
> snapshot so I can release this thing
> 
> On 1/11/06, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> >
> >
> 
> Auf Englisch: we might call the action (misguided) deference, 
> and hence the feeling becomes "post-misguided deference 
> symdrome" or just plain "self-doubt"?  That already fits 
> comfortably on one line.

Hm.  Well, unless the German translation of that requires the use of
"Smallfont", it just doesn't have the same Teutonic charm.

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle