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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Spotted this over at Metafilter, at http://www.metafilter.com/59545/RealTim … ap#1625277 today. The poster notes that he’s uncertain of the spelling, but the transition in mid-word from schadenfreude to something seemingly inspired by “freudian” seems eggcorn-like to me.
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