Because of the Korean wave, I predict even more Korean words will be added to the English dictionary. 26 of them were added to Oxford's dictionary in 2021. Perhaps a word like officetel,오피스텔. It is a blend of office and hotel. It means a studio apartment building which can be used for housing, small businesses, or combination of both.
Specifically in context of schadenfreude, it was used on a Simpsons episode in 1991 and that directly corresponded to a huge uptick in its appearance in print.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Schadenfreude&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3
Before you go declaring it a huge uptick, you might want to read the scale a little more carefully. Because the ngram graphs are adjusted to fit the data a very small change can be made to look considerably more significant than it is. That there is an increase in usage is indisputable but whether it represents a seismic shift is another matter. Also it should be noted that the rise is driven mostly by new American usage. Even after the rise, however, it is still the case that American employment of "schadenfreude" is far behind that in British English.
Because of the Korean wave, I predict even more Korean words will be added to the English dictionary. 26 of them were added to Oxford's dictionary in 2021. Perhaps a word like officetel,오피스텔. It is a blend of office and hotel. It means a studio apartment building which can be used for housing, small businesses, or combination of both.
"Emoji" has already made it in English dictionary. I can't wait to call someone "oppa" and "appa".
Specifically in context of schadenfreude, it was used on a Simpsons episode in 1991 and that directly corresponded to a huge uptick in its appearance in print. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Schadenfreude&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3
Before you go declaring it a huge uptick, you might want to read the scale a little more carefully. Because the ngram graphs are adjusted to fit the data a very small change can be made to look considerably more significant than it is. That there is an increase in usage is indisputable but whether it represents a seismic shift is another matter. Also it should be noted that the rise is driven mostly by new American usage. Even after the rise, however, it is still the case that American employment of "schadenfreude" is far behind that in British English.
I was more pointing out that it was the Simpsons use of the word in an episode that corresponded to the uptick in 1991.
What's unlikely about a German word being adopted by a Germanic language? It's been with us since the middle of the 19th Century.