From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8246 invoked by alias); 16 Jan 2006 10:33:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 8236 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Jan 2006 10:33:40 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from host217-40-213-68.in-addr.btopenworld.com (HELO SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM) (217.40.213.68) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:33:38 +0000 Received: from espanola ([192.168.1.110]) by SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:33:33 +0000 From: "Dave Korn" To: "'emotional literacy week'" Subject: RE: once more unto the breech - please try a snapshot so I can release this thing Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:33:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <2e59e6970601142120g49f50ee9w736d03ab1a6ed524@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: 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/msg00062.txt.bz2 * * wrote: > 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. Ah, but it's not the self-doubt to which I am alluding, but the feelings of shame, self-loathing, embarassment, utter hatred of the entire universe, and ennui which arise out of an occasion on which your actions have been guided by that self-doubt. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....