From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22755 invoked by alias); 15 Jan 2006 05:41:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 22747 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Jan 2006 05:41:06 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net (HELO mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net) (204.127.131.115) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 05:41:05 +0000 Received: from dfw5rb41 (h-68-165-187-105.chcgilgm.dynamic.covad.net[68.165.187.105]) by worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc11) with SMTP id <2006011505410311100o0o90e>; Sun, 15 Jan 2006 05:41:03 +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: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 05:41:00 -0000 Message-ID: <002501c61996$4597c180$020aa8c0@DFW5RB41> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <2e59e6970601142120g49f50ee9w736d03ab1a6ed524@mail.gmail.com> 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/msg00061.txt.bz2 > 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