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carolt

Masomnia wrote: »

Hang on I'm confused.

Schadenfreude is the correct spelling. 'Schaden' means damage or hurt, or pity depending on the context; and 'Freude' means joy, so Schadenfreude is taking joy from others misfortunes.

Schadenfreunde I imagine means something about pittying someone's friends, is this the joke I missed lol?

Yes, it is. Please see other thread - DD kept accusing !!!!!! of being a schadenfreunde, so I asked him what one of them was - not had a reply yet.

JonnyBravo

mr.broderick wrote: »

Mewbie are you vernon?

Why don't you use your new software to find out? :rolleyes:

Is it on the blink??

mr.broderick wrote: »

Anybody else got the software that tells you what other id's the members have? Lovely bit of kit.

Run it this evening and repoamuse who joined recently :rolleyes: was formerly ..... well i'll tell you what he bought a car with welcome finance a few years back !!! Anybody that remembers that thread wil know also who he used to be !!!

Dithering_Dad

carolt wrote: »

Yes, it is. Please see other thread - DD kept accusing !!!!!! of being a schadenfreunde, so I asked him what one of them was - not had a reply yet.

Allow me to explain...

Carolt is one of those poor souls who isn't naturally funny. She saw a spelling mistake and made quite a big deal out of it. I likened her to one of those socially inept people at a dinner party who tells a joke and then spends the rest of the night following people around and trying to explain it, while the other dinner guests look at their shoes in embarrasment and try to discretely shuffle away, promising themselves that they will not attend another party with such a boring person.

What carolt is forgetting is that there are a lot of people on MSE who don't have the advantage of her (or indeed my) education and struggle with both punctuation, grammar and spelling. By mocking one person, you mock them all and in some cases drive the very people off a forum who need it most.

I have never and would never taunt anyone about their written or spoken English language skills. When I see it on MSE, it simply makes me think the person doing it is an intellectual snob. I also find it amusing when the person doing the taunting makes a mistake themselves. carolt did exactly this when she first started the Scanfreunde (sic) witch hunt.

JonnyBravo

Dithering_Dad wrote: »

What carolt is forgetting is that there are a lot of people on MSE who don't have the advantage of her (or indeed my) education and struggle with both punctuation, grammar and spelling. By mocking one person, you mock them all and in some cases drive the very people off a forum who need it most.

I have never and would never taunt anyone about their written or spoken English language skills. When I see it on MSE, it simply makes me think the person doing it is an intellectual snob. I also find it amusing when the person doing the taunting makes a mistake themselves. carolt did exactly this when she first started the Scanfreunde (sic) witch hunt.

Blimey, taking the mick out of spelling is that bad eh?

If they're driven off by having their spelling mocked they're far too sensitive to be here in the first place.
I for one shall continue to selectively mock spelling mistakes/ignorance when I see fit.... ie when the mood takes me.



You either
a) made a typo
or
b) didn't know what schadenfreude meant

either way, is it such a big deal? You seem to be making a mountain out of a molehill and much as I hate to admit it.... it seems as if you're squirming.

Dithering_Dad

carolt wrote: »

Am I the only one to find this thread a testament to the worst aspects of this forum?

...as we all stare into the potential abyss as our economy crashes...and discussion revolves around a typo?

!!!!!! - threads like this make me wonder if there is any point reading/posting here

Yes, quite. It does make one wonder if there is any point reading/posting when discussion revolves around a typo.

Anyway carolt, you were saying....?

Dithering_Dad

JonnyBravo wrote: »

Blimey, taking the mick out of spelling is that bad eh?

If they're driven off by having their spelling mocked they're far too sensitive to be here in the first place.
I for one shall continue to selectively mock spelling mistakes/ignorance when I see fit.... ie when the mood takes me.



You either
a) made a typo
or
b) didn't know what schadenfreude meant

either way, is it such a big deal? You seem to be making a mountain out of a molehill and much as I hate to admit it.... it seems as if you're squirming.

nah, not squirming - it'd take more than a daft ribbing about an extraneous letter 'r' in one of my posts to make me worried. I just find it amusing that carolt keeps banging on about it as though I've totally undermined everything I stand for and should resign my MSE commision immediately.

As far as the spelling thing is concerned, my opinion was formed in the first few weeks of being on MSE when someone had real financial and personal problems posted on MSE for help (admittedly, not in the HPC board where no help is forthcoming) and because of her poor english, he problems were ignored and the thread descended into a maelstrom of taunting. She didn't come back to that thread.

Having said that, on this particular board it's all a little slapstick and people are generally aware that you venture in here at your own peril, so a little ribbing about spellng, especially with regulars isn't going to cause too much offense.