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1. almost 14 years ago on Non Sequitur

   “Schade” means “That’s too bad!” or “That’s a shame!” “Freude” means “joy”. My translation would be “That’s a shame what happened to you!…but I’m sure glad it didn’t happen to me.”

2. almost 14 years ago on Non Sequitur

   @Atma, actually, it’s a myth that “but for the sake of just ONE single vote, America’s official language would have been German”; it’s based upon an assertion by a 19th century historian that after the Revolutionary War, Pennsylvania came within one vote of declaring German its official language; further research has concluded that that never happened either.