With an arched English eyebrow and a Gallic shrug, fellow Europeans often claim that only a jackbooted nation such as the Germans would invent a word, "Schadenfreude,” for describing the experience of finding great pleasure in someone else’s dire misfortune, yet I don’t believe this slanderous assertion for one second. Take our own word “snigger” for example; surely we only ever snigger at another person’s embarrassment or discomfiture and at no other time. Purists might suggest that we also snigger at rude or obscene jokes, yet I would argue that at such improper moments we are actually “smirking.”
Anyway, everybody can be sniggering away at my existing predicament, since I am currently unhappily busier that Josef Goebbel’s personal astrologer on Walpurgis Night - life is certainly no Berliner cabaret for me this week. All my free time seems to be locked up in Colditz Castle, desperately digging hidden tunnels by concealing dug earth in its trouser leg, building tiny glider planes out of old Red Cross crates, or trying to slip past the guards dressed up in Bavarian peasant costume: "Wakey wakey hours, minutes and seconds, we're going over the wire - tonight!"
Update: many thanks to Quicquid for correcting my earlier crassly mistaken spelling of Schedanwhatever-it-is. I hope he is sniggering at my misfortune.
Count me a purist, then. I say we snigger whenever we laugh at something we know we shouldn't laugh at. It's a secret, hidden laugh.
I built a tiny Colditz glider when I 'were a kid.
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