🇩🇪 German word of the day:

Fremdschämen

(To be ashamed for someone else)

@kniggem Nice; Spanish has ‘vergüenza ajena’ (lit. foreign shame) Not a single compound word, but elides nicely.

Alas, in English one is stuck with cumbersome constructs: “I’m embarrassed for you/him/her/them” or “Were I ___, I’d crawl under a rock in shame.’ 😂