"What a fearful thing it is that any language should have a word expressive of the pleasure which men feel at the calamities of others; for the existence of the word bears testimony to the existence of the thing. And yet in more than one (language) such a word is found... in the Greek 'epikhairekakia', in the German '-'."
Richard C. Trench "On the Study of Words", 1852
No comments:
Post a Comment