John Koenig: Beautiful new words to describe obscure emotions
जॉन कोनीग: सुंदर नए शब्द जो अस्पष्ट भावनाओं का वर्णन करते हैं
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शब्दों के अर्थ के बारे में,
about the meaning of words,
is a magnificent sponge.
और मैं इसे खुशी से बोल पाता हूं।
I'm glad that I speak it.
एक तूफान देखते हैं
a thunderstorm on the horizon
पक्ष लेते हुए पाते हैं|
rooting for the storm.
to feel intensely again
महसूस करने की लालसा
hypothetical conversation
play out in your head.
of course in German,
of getting what you want.
इसलिए मै इसको सही में महसूस कर सकता हूँ।
so I know exactly what that feels like.
if I would use any of these words
is because I made them up.
कि मैंने उन्हें बनाया है
of Obscure Sorrows,"
for the last seven years.
in the language of emotion
about all those human peccadilloes
और व्यवहार के बारे में
but may not think to talk about
इसके बारे में बात करना न सोच पाएं
ऐसा करने के लिए शब्द नहीं हैं|
as the main character
मुख्य पात्र के रूप में देखते हैं
we're all the main character,
हम सभी मुख्य पात्र हैं,
in someone else's story.
हम खुद छोटे पात्र हैं
to something I had felt all my life
को आवाज देने के लिए धन्यवाद
in conversations online,
मैंने इसे वास्तव में देखा,
in an actual conversation in person.
एक वास्तविक बातचीत में
than making up a word
take on a mind of its own.
स्वयं की राह बनाते देखना|
लेकिन मैं कुछ करूंगा|
for that yet, but I will.
about what makes words real,
शब्दों को असली क्या बनाता है,
I got from people is,
I don't really understand."
मैं वास्तव में समझ नहीं पा रहा हूं "
कौनसा शब्द असली है या नहीं
are real and what aren't.
who described his epiphany
जिन्होंने उस प्रत्यक्ष अनुभव का वर्णन किया
as we go through the day,
हम में से अधिकांश, अपने दिन के दौरान,
bouncing against the walls too much
की कोशिश करते रहते है
by people no smarter than you,
चतुर लोगों ने नहीं किया,
उन दीवारों को स्पर्श कर सकते हैं
and touch those walls
the power to change it.
इसे बदलने की शक्ति है|
"Are these words real?"
"क्या ये शब्द वाकई असली हैं?"
that I tried out.
Some of them didn't.
और कुछ नहीं |
अगर आप चाहते हैं कि यह वास्तविक हो। "
if you want it to be real."
क्योंकि लोग चाहते थे कि यह वहां हो
because people wanted it to be there.
campuses all the time.
वास्तव में लोग पूछ क्या रहे हैं
what people are really asking
they're really asking,
वे वास्तव में पूछ रहे हैं,
will this give me access to?"
भाषा को इस तरह देखते हैं
a lot of how we look at language.
पर निर्भर होता है यह कौन है।
access to as many brains as you can.
आप जितने भी दिमागों तक पहुंच सकते हैं।
by this measure is this.
to a master key.
understood word in the world,
what those two letters stand for.
उन दो अक्षरों के क्या मायने हैं
of "all correct," I guess,
गलत संक्षेपण हो "सब सही" का,
but the fact that it doesn't matter
तथ्य यह है कि इससे कोई फर्क नहीं पड़ता
how we add meaning to words.
हम शब्दों में अर्थ कैसे जोड़ते हैं
in the words themselves.
that pour ourselves into it.
उंडेल देते हैं
for meaning in our lives,
अपने जीवन में अर्थ की खोज कर रहे हैं
कुछ सम्बन्ध है
something to do with that.
किसी के अर्थ को खोज रहे हैं
for the meaning of something,
शब्दकोश अच्छा स्थान है
इतने सीमित है
with patterns and shorthands
a way to interpret it
की कोशिश करते हैं
स्वयं को शामिल और स्पष्ट करने के लिए
to define ourselves.
अपने आप को सीमित पाते हैं
All words are made up,
सभी शब्द रचे गए हैं,
trapped in our own lexicons
अपने शब्द-कोषों में
के साथ मेल नहीं खाते हैं,
with people who aren't already like us,
हर साल और भटक रहे हैं,
a little more every year,
"Calvin and Hobbes."
"केल्विन और होब्स" बनाया|
your values and satisfies your soul
प्रकट करे और आत्मा को संतुष्टी दे
happier for the trouble."
मुसीबत से गुज़र के आप खुश होंगे।"
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
John Koenig - WriterJohn Koenig is writing an original dictionary of made-up words.
Why you should listen
John Koenig has spent the last seven years writing an original dictionary of made-up words, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, which fills gaps in the language with hundreds of new terms for emotions. This project seeks to restore sadness to its original meaning (from Latin satis, "fullness") by defining moments of melancholy that we may all feel, but never think to mention -- deepening our understanding of each other by broadening the emotional palette, from avenoir, "the desire to see memories in advance," to zenosyne, "the sense that time keeps going faster."
Each entry is a collage of word roots borrowed from languages all around the world. Some entries are even beginning to enter the language outright:
sonder n. The realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own -- populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness -- an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you'll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.
His original YouTube series, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, which he writes, edits and narrates himself, has drawn acclaim from John Green and Beyoncé to Michael from Vsauce. "Each episode is a soothing meditation on its subject, fortified by a hypnotic soundtrack and Koenig’s twistingly intelligent narration," writes The Daily Dot.
He currently works as a freelance video editor, voice actor, graphic designer, illustrator, photographer, director and writer. His writing has been published in countless tattoos, stories, song titles and band names, but never on paper -- though he is currently working on publishing a book adaptation. Originally from Minnesota and Geneva, Switzerland, John lives in Budapest with his wife.
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