Ok then, let's see...
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Originally Posted by Kartoffelbrei
sometimes you have 7 words for the same ****ing thing.
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THIS from a people who can't decide if the sea is male, female or neither!
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And then you don't have a word for "Schadenfreude", and just call it Schadenfreude, lol 
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Ain't that "shameful joy"? Also known as "being a prick"
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You don't make a difference between "Torte" and "Kuchen" and call it BOTH cake. I mean - what the ****?!
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This you need to explain. What is torte (tart?) and kuche? We have hundreds of different cakes...
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You have no word for Kummerspeck(eating when sad)
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No. We call that "eating when sad"
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, no word for fremdschämen(feeling ashamed for another person's behaviour),
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Embarassment?
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no word for a Rabenmutter (a bad mother),
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Crack whore?
and you don't even have a word for
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very lucky or very unlucky people: "Glückspilz"(luckmushroom) and "Pechvogel"(misfortunebird)
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Yeah we do: lucky bastards and unlucky bastards
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also you don't know what "verschlimmbessern" is, which is the act to try to make something better, but making it worse instead.
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It's called trying to help, or digging a deeper hole.
See, in English we use more than one word to describe a thing, action or person, so we may not have one word as you do like schawdenwotsit but we call it two things. That's how English mostly works.
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