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mderpeling says:

Does this mean I can’t use the word “hubris” in a sentence?
How about schadenfreude ?
I think I got that last word wrong.
Sort of a verbal “shock and awe” thing.
If I can use big words, my ideas must be better.
I have the same problem, a love for my own vocabulary.
If I can’t put my ideas clearly, how can I expect anybody to consider those ideas?
If I don’t allways say the same thought,
how can my audience accept the courage of my convictions?

Thanks for the lesson.

Comment by mderpelding

My REPLY:

I was watching one of my VCR tapes and it had rerun of an old TV show called “Titus.” I am happy to say this because Truly Sophisticated People never watch television. He said something about hubris and maybe the person he was taling about didn’t understand the word “hubris. ” In another sitcom I was watching the talker was making quick translations of word sophisticated people used. The word “exotic” came up. She said it meant “ugly.”

People who don’t watch television never describe a mixed-blood as ugly. They say they are “exotic” and they honestly believe everybody takes them seriously. Buckley takes them seriously, but nobody else does. When what you say is funny on a SITCOM, you have been caught dead to rights.

But you don’t know it. And you hire Buckley clones who doesn’t know it either.

You got Schadenfreude right, it’s just that German is like old English, it’s capitalized. Us rednecks know things like that.

Schadenfreude means “hurt joy.” It means that you enjoy it when somebody who thinks he is superior to you runs into reality and gets hurt. Which happens to be exactly what I do to those who say silly things and try to cover them with “sophistication.”

There are endless pictures of John Kennedy in his tuxedo going to listen to classical music. Harry Truman PLAYED classical music. If someone made fun of Kennedy for making such a pont of being able to LISTEN to it, that would be Schadenfreude.

But no one did.