Schottenfreude
Title: Schottenfreude
Author/Year: Benn Schott, 2013
Found: The Footpath Library
Read time: A coffee break
Comments:
German is a language which to second-language speakers offers a delightful sense of brillenbrillanz1 throughout the learning process. Though fun, it can also often lead to moments of witzbeharrsamkeit2 in class etc. Such an embarrassing incident could lead to a need to satisfy your saukopfsülzensehnsucht3 for comfort. Nay fear, your irreaffentittenturbosuperdupertyp4 will probably still love you, and possibly even join you in the feasting.
This well researched, intellectual nibble of a book is likely to induce just such instances.
Zeuxigelächter5 guaranteed.
- The sudden, innervating clarity afforded by new glasses
- Lit. joke-insistence: unashamedly repeating a bon mot until it is properly heard by everyone present
- Lit. pig’s-head-aspic-desire: A shameful love of bad food
- Simpatico
- Laughter so prolonged and intense is causes physical pain
