Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[jean]

Schadenfreude, or even epicaricacy. Horrible emotions, both. Don't like 'em at all.

Don't like the emotion - but Schadenfreude seems to get it exactly, if I ever need to point it out!

Epicaricacy I had never heard.

Here's the ever-interesting Michael Quinion:

http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-epi3.htm

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[jean]

Literally, "shadow joy" - the dark pleasure at other people's misfortunes...

That would be very satisfying if true...but it's not, is it?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

That would be very satisfying if true...but it's not, is it?

No - and the inaccurate use of the word may be a cause for the tooth-edging quality. Just used as a synonym for "gloating" takes away its subtle (and useful) origins.

[Pabmusic]

Don't like the emotion - but Schadenfreude seems to get it exactly, if I ever need to point it out!

Epicaricacy I had never heard.

Here's the ever-interesting Michael Quinion:

http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-epi3.htm

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Thanks, Jean. That's where I got it from and now I can say that I've written it! (Can't imagine I ever shall again, though.)

[jean]

No - and the inaccurate use of the word may be a cause for the tooth-edging quality. Just used as a synonym for "gloating" takes away its subtle (and useful) origins.

Can you expound further?

I'd be mortified to find I'd been misusing it.

[P. G. Tipps]

It always makes me smile, rather than sets my teeth on edge, when a man accused of murder is inevitably reported in the media to have 'friends, who describe him as a bit of a loner ... '.

Maybe the police should just round-up all the loners who have friends?

[vinteuil]

... having looked at the wiki page on schadenfreude - perhaps we could introduce an etymological Percy Grainger Englishing of the word - scathefrith

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Can you expound further?
I'd be mortified to find I'd been misusing it.

Ignore all my comments on this word - it turns out that I have been completely misinterpreting it for as long as I've known it

[Serial_Apologist]

... having looked at the wiki page on schadenfreude - perhaps we could introduce an etymological Percy Grainger Englishing of the word - scathefrith

I suppose epicariocicy would consist in taking pleasure at another's drunken attempt to sing along to a backing track in a pub.

[Pabmusic]

It always makes me smile, rather than sets my teeth on edge, when a man accused of murder is inevitably reported in the media to have 'friends, who describe him as a bit of a loner ... '.

Maybe the police should just round-up all the loners who have friends?

[teamsaint]

Feast on this lot.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/35309759

Lets start with " reputational recovery"......

[Beef Oven!]

the superiority of black popular music (...) undoubtedly superior (...) far less advanced (...) a greater degree of musical savvy

[Beef Oven!]

"In denial"

[Stanfordian]

The phrase 'Back in the Day' is used that much today that some people even contrive ways to place it in a sentence just to use it; especially on TV.

[Lat-Literal]

Neville Gwynne continues to be a quiet star in 5 Live's grammar feature on Up All Night (the early hours of Monday morning). He reminds me of Alan Bennett. But it is a couple of words/phrases used in connection with football that concern me currently. "He is not exactly pulling up trees" is a phrase for under-performing managers and players. I have no idea how/where it started. And there is the word "recruitment" for taking on new players. That doesn't sound right to me. Surely we used to talk of transfers and appointments?