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*If you get into my combox and lecture me about charity, I will get into my combox and make virtual faces at you until you lighten up. If you quote the Catechism at me, I will quote something back, and it will not be from a holy book. <\/em><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
**This word is endlessly versatile and can be used as any part of speech, because it\u2019s a word the Germans made up<\/em>, so rules of English grammar do not apply. Feel free to abuse it in any way you see fit. But don\u2019t forget the c or switch the e and the u, or I\u2019ll make sure everyone notices it and thinks you\u2019re pretentious. And for God\u2019s sake, don\u2019t mention that you only know what the word means because you saw that re-run of <\/em>Boston Legal. That\u2019s just sad.<\/em>
\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2013Kisses, <\/em><\/span><\/p>\nThe Grammar Fairy<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s the day before Thanksgiving! I am so grateful that the wind is blowing and the weather is gorgeous, that house is clean and the windows are open, and that the Catholic Church has never explicitly condemned schadenfreude as a sin*. (I\u2019m also eternally grateful for that episode of Boston Legal where James Spader explained […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[276],"class_list":["post-2667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-schadenfreude"],"yoast_head":"\n
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