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.

1. The sudden, innervating clarity afforded by new glasses
2. Lit. joke-insistence: unashamedly repeating a bon mot until it is properly heard by everyone present
3. Lit. pig’s-head-aspic-desire: A shameful love of bad food
4. Simpatico
5. Laughter so prolonged and intense is causes physical pain

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