This deserves a Nobel prize. Creating new words for feelings or sensations that we don't know how to describe is probably unlocking the access to new parts of the brain and to the unconscious that psychology never reached before.
Maybe. Perhaps. But the conception that words actually dictate reality is something that is frowned upon. Carl Jung pointed it out like 80 years and he's considered a crackpot. Which, whether he knows it or not, John here is describing archetypal beliefs and even collective consciousness described by Jung. Perhaps if he does know it, it explains his feelings of vemodalen. And instead of being original, he is on the stage saying his lines.
I had the amazing opportunity to send him a mail asking for permission to "take his words out on a date" and revolve poetry around them. He replied saying that he would love that. I love his work.
Its great, you should totally share them! I wonder how did you contact him and how quick was the response. I mailed him several times about illustrating his words and I didn't get any reply :((
I can't even imagine standing there and explaining things like this which could be absurd,confusing and self limiting in form of experience.Great job to put all this into such beautiful words.
dumplings1997 I agree, even though he’s nervous, the concepts he brings up, almost no body speaks about them, and it’s very unique. I find it very interesting
I'm not sure it was nerve's, seemed just more like a little awkwardness as he probably doesn't do much public speaking. He seemed pretty confident tho.
Imagine having a conversation with him? He seems so interesting and I feel like there Is so much going on around his head that it is hard to keep the track of his own mind!!
Your take on words reminded me of a poem about 'satsang'. Satsang is a Sanskrit word that means "gathering together for the truth" or, more simply, "being with the truth." Truth is what is real, what exists. 'Truth is too simple for words before thought gets tangled up in nouns and verbs there is a wordless sound a deep breathless sigh of overwhelming relief to find the end of fiction in this ordinary yet extraordinary moment when words are recognized as words and truth is recognized as everything else' Thank you, John your talk is a lovely invitation to contemplation >:D
What a find! Koenig you are my Guru now. More words mean better communication, mean less confusion, less strife, more understanding, more agreement, more love. Been trying my whole life to find better words. Re-inspired now! Klaus in Seattle
Love your work John, I hope you are working on new projects and creating new words for us to contemplate and add to our lexicon. Take your time and make sure it is meaningful to yourself first and foremost.
Wow, wonder, awe, appreciation... I'll have to think about inventing a word to explain the joy I feel from listening to Mr. Koenig inspire us to get dirty with the chaos and complexity. Beautiful ideas, elevating and inspirational.
I love the way he is able to present things seemingly familiar to us e.g., "meaning," understood from different perspectives and how the popular lexicon can often become meaningless through oversimplification.
Wow... This is such a cool and unique way to look at things... This video felt like I found another dimension to something, that I can't put into words. This has filled such a big whole in my life that I feel will patch so many other wholes.Thank you John this was so beautiful
The word describing his realization that a word he invented to provide a meaning is commonly being used globally or in modern speech is called a Neologism, with this book he became or probably already was a Neologist, bringing expressions to a world screaming for them, like teaching a baby how to talk. If some of these were researched and come from another time being brought back to life they are Paleologisms, so Neo from New and Logism from Logos, and we all here know the rest. Im now comfortable saying my name in public thanks to this Genius, that caused an identity to be created after I had lost my own, had given up and attempted a "euthanaselfie," I made up that one cuz I like it better than "Unalive" when avoiding media ban, since its more accurate to the action as you can be alive without living and die while still alive. So yeah... Thanks, or a Deep cut High five for his watashiato.
I read that OK came from the Civil War and came about from military reports. It really means 0 killed and was - over time - condensed to OK and that was it's beginning .
I feel like if I was to summarize his talk, it would be "to define ourselves by creating a new word in the dictionary and filling in the definition of that word by our own words, our own meanings, instead of finding words in the present dictionary to represent what we are and losing some special not yet commonly agreed upon feelings or character that we uniquely have by fitting ourselves into the already characterized word".
His channel has not produced a new video for months. "Morii: The Desire to Capture a Fleeting Experience" was the last one. Does anybody know the reason why?
I believe it's because he's working on creating a physical Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. You probably know this but he's finally released a new video and in the description it says he's got a book coming soon!
Excellent,and wouldn't it be so much better if all of us could visualize (in our minds)better words to use,and after a while they would n't have to think sadness.
Live your life like a queen. Just like a king. Your throne of cliches, comforting? And my pain. Oh my pain. Why oh why does it concern you? Let me go. I wanna go. I wanna go and not come back. And my pain. Oh yet again. I'm only happy when it rains. {Cho} Tell me to lighten up, tell me. Force me to feel your way. Make me smile when I don't want to. Tell me how to feel. Make you want to understand. I don't even know. Not this. (something something) It's just exulansis.
I love the dictionary of obscure sorrows when I listen to it, I feet I am not alone. I had a totally different expectation about the author, I always thought he should be someone like me, small, shy with a weak voice, and not attractive in the standard definition. good for him, but I wish I haven't seen this talk
I want people to think about the languages destroyed deliberately by the spreading of the Spanish, English, French and Portuguese languages upon what the Christendom age of discovery claimed as a new world. This world (earth) was known as tonantzin; the language was Nahuatl, and among other languages, the world was taught to people as our mother.
But maybe the definition of the feeling is enough. The giving of name is not necessary. Words can help us access minds of the past, which sadly these words cannot. However, the feeling which is defined by these words are shared with us by our ancestors.
I have a word for a feeling. Well i don t have it actually, just i think it should have one. Tell you all what is your opinion. X word: thay feeling when you are inside the bed sleeping but awake with heavy quilt or blanket on you, and someone put wear on the bed and you, and feel the weight makin a more protective situation. Are you with me?😅
Where is this guy from? I saw a lot of different info online: From Idaho, but created in Switzerland, born and raised in Minneapolis, but he says here "I'm a German myself" hahahah
I do feel that emojis are like one step towards a kanji like written language. In 1 in a 1000 versions of the future we all could be using complex emoji-gifs as a universal written language.
I like Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, although it gets kind of self-indulgent and overwrought at times. "This sucks, that sucks, all these things suck". Most of all, "modernity sucks", which it doesn't, or not any more than things ever did.
valar I mean it's not called "Dictionary of Obscure Delights", haha. I know what you're saying, but try watching them with a different undertone. They can become inspiring rather than depressing.
I am disappointed the early age Americans decided to cut the tongues of the language speakers of the indigenous population of Semanawak, Nahuatl for the one whole land surrounded by water and the other languages of Turtle Island.
I think this guy needs to learn physics before talking. We, as in all of us, need to understand and realise the exponential change in entropy first before we introduce more changes. You are defining things. But, rather making them more complex. Language is just for communication, none of us know all those words, bringing new words into the vision which has a definition including other words is pointless, Why shorten them? Just for your fame.
