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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a compendium of invented words written by John Koenig. Each original definition aims to fill a hole in the language—to give a name to emotions we all might experience but don’t yet have a word for. Follow the project, give feedback, suggest an emotion you need a word for, or just tell me about your day.
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2020年12月22日 · Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows? Does anyone know John Koenig is still working on Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows or if it'll ever be released? I have been dying to read it ever since he "created" the word Sonder, probably 7-10 years ago.
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2017年8月5日 · The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a compendium of invented words written by John Koenig. Each original definition aims to fill a hole in the language—to give a name to emotions we all might experience but don’t yet have a word for. All words in …
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2014年6月23日 · vemödalen n. the frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist—the same sunset, the same waterfall, the same curve of a hip, the same closeup of an eye—which can turn a unique subject into something hollow and pulpy and cheap, like a mass-produced piece of furniture you happen to have assembled yourself.
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2021年6月7日 · For logophiles, whether you tend toward pleonasm or perspicacious thrift. Any language is acceptable. Suggested topics are new words, expressions, neologisms, neoterisms, sniglets, odd usages, reanimated words, words you never knew existed, words you wish existed, or even words you would like expurgated from the space-time
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2022年8月19日 · I felt so heard. This book was so unexpectedly soothing for my mind and heart. Like a years worth of free therapy.
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2017年4月24日 · Anyone watched or heard of the YouTube short-episode series "The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows"? It's very interesting and provides a lot of food for thought. My favorite word is "onism" - the awareness of how little of the world we will experience in our lifetimes. It's just so bittersweet, something we just have to accept.
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2024年5月14日 · Just now catching up on ep 283. The opening discussion reminded me of John Koenig's project The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, a series of short montage films that coined terms for previously unnamed phenomenological experiences. It's radically different in tone from VBW, but some of the shorts can be quite moving.
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2022年3月16日 · The other day, I was reading John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (a book of "made up" words that the author developed to express specific, hard-to-define emotions), and I kept feeling as if it was glossing many of Lacan's more complicated ideas in quite fun, simple ways. I was all about that, since Lacan is notoriously tricky, and I ...
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2023年7月10日 · I came across this book called "The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows" and it's like an actual dictionary but the focus is on words that describe a whole spectrum of melancholic feelings that I wasn't even aware of! I've gotten to the letter "D" so far and already this is becoming one of my favorite books.