I’m linking to the Freudenfreude post again this week, but not because of the Freudenfreude. Or at least not just because of the Freudenfreude. There is also a fun ten question quiz about the states. I got four answers correct, although I shoulda gotten five right. It’s just that there are two states that I … Continue reading Now That’s a Civics Lesson
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Whitecloud Dispels Storm Clouds
Deutsch, or as Mark Twain famously called it, “The Awful German Language”, is a very versatile language which easily coins new words by simply making a compound word out of two or more other words. Some of these find their way into English. Hence, we have Schadenfreude, the joy (Freude) in someone else’s harm (Schaden). … Continue reading Whitecloud Dispels Storm Clouds