Editing Schadenfreude (section)

== Neologisms and variants ==
The word ''schadenfreude'' had been [[Blend word|blended]] with other words to form [[neologisms]] as early as 1993, when Lincoln Caplan, in his book ''Skadden: Power, Money, and the Rise of a Legal Empire'', used the word ''Skaddenfreude'' to describe the delight that competitors of [[Skadden Arps]] took in its troubles of the early 1990s.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Caplan |first1=Lincoln |chapter=Skaddenfreude |pages=231–238 |chapter-url={{Google books|d7wqShzpWzYC|page=231|plainurl=yes}} |title=Skadden: Power, Money, and the Rise of a Legal Empire |date=1994 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=978-0-374-52424-1 }}</ref> Others include ''spitzenfreude'', coined by ''[[The Economist]]'' to refer to the fall of [[Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal|Eliot Spitzer]],<ref>{{cite news |title=The hypocrites' club |url=https://www.economist.com/united-states/2008/03/13/the-hypocrites-club |newspaper=The Economist }}</ref> and ''Schadenford'', coined by ''[[Toronto Life]]'' in regard to Canadian politician [[Rob Ford]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kives |first1=Bartley |title=May 2013: When the Ford jokes stop |url=https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/columnists/when-the-ford-jokes-stop-208982891.html |work=Winnipeg Free Press |date=26 May 2013 }}</ref>