German Words That Aren't Schadenfreude

If you couldn't tell by the last name already, I've got a little German in me — both hereditarily and dispositionally.

This collection honors one of the things Germans have nailed over the years — cooking up their own words that other languages often need a full sentence to even begin to match.

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