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Yeah, joy from inflicting harm is sadism. Author probably just wanted to use the word schadenfreude. It's a really fun word.



German has some awesome words: glockenspiel, gesundheit, blitz, panzer...


In German, you can combine a bunch of words to create a new one.

Feel free to read the full explanation on a pretty awesome example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizi...


I have used this to test a business directory to check how it handles long company names.


I also used the famous long welsh place name to test addresses with :-) "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch"


...Bundespraesidentenstichwahlwiederholungsverschiebung


...Rindfleischetikettierungsueberwachungsaufgabenuebertragungsgesetz


...Claudia Schiffer, Heidi Klum, Julia Stegner, Diane Kruger,...


... Eichhörnchen


It really is a fun word. Always makes me thing of Avenue Q.




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