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  • Schadenfreudler /ˈʃɑː.dɘnˌfrɔ͜ɪd̥.lɘr/

    If you don’t know how to read IPA, roughly “SHAAH-then-FROYD-ler”

    Btw: I just constructed this word based on my native speaker intuition. I doubt that you can find it in a dictionary, because it’s not something one would force into a single word. A more natural way to say what you mean would be “Leute, die (hier) (auch) Schadenfreude empfinden”, which translates to “people who (also) feel Schadenfreude (here)”.


  • The posts I saw fell into these rough categories:

    • Sharing articles that are interesting or important to know
    • People asking questions about linguistics (a frequent one was people asking about what some kind of feature is called in the field, kind of “what do I have to search for to learn more about this?”)
    • Linguistic studies that were featured in general media (as long as neither the study nor the media coverage is garbage)
    • Stickied FAQ post and a regular general questions post
    • People sharing their own work that they think others might find interesting
    • Podcast episodes and YouTube videos about linguistics that are worth promoting

    I think the only things related to linguistics that weren’t welcome were posts where people come up with folk etymologies, spreading disproven theories or claiming one language being superior than another.

    Conlanging: You’d sometimes see questions about linguistics in general (usually typology) by a conlanger, but I don’t think I ever saw anything other than that. I would guess that links relating to conlangs/conlanging were deleted, with a suggestion to post them to /r/conlangs instead.