A recruiter sent me a message in code. I fixed it

Re:A recruiter sent me a message in code. I fixed it by dcsommer on Friday December 30, 2016 @01:14PM (#13285986)

There's a great German word for this exact feeling: fremdschämen.

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Re:A recruiter sent me a message in code. I fixed it by mastermindxs on Friday December 30, 2016 @02:20PM (#13286584)

Is that pronounced "friend shaming"?

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Re:A recruiter sent me a message in code. I fixed it by kafkaesq on Friday December 30, 2016 @06:22PM (#13288388)

ˈfʀɛmtˌʃɛːmən, or if you will: "FREMT-shay-men". (You need to gurgle a bit, or at least hint at gurgling, when doing the 'R', now).

However you pronounce it -- I find it hard to have any kind of empathy at all for recruiters (internal or external), and hence, can't quite imagine myself "feeling a sense of shame for them in their place" (per the generic translation).

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Re:A recruiter sent me a message in code. I fixed it by superplussed on Saturday December 31, 2016 @04:31AM (#13290322)

I don't see an 'R' in there?

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Re:A recruiter sent me a message in code. I fixed it by dcsommer on Friday December 30, 2016 @02:37PM (#13286729)

Fremd actually means foreign, referring to the external source of the shame (schämen).

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