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'Sonder' is most certainly a word! https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/sonder https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/sonder
by 076ae80a-3c97-4 8y ago
'Sonder' is most certainly a word! https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/sonder https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/sonder
- thieving_magpie 8y agoLet's just go ahead and kill this back and forth. Yes, sonder is a word. The definition used in the article is debatable as to whether it's a word. It's a word invented in 2012 by a guy that wrote a book about inventing new words for emotions. >Coined in 2012 by John Koenig, whose project, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, aims to come up with new words for emotions that currently lack words.[1][2] Related to German sonder- (“special”) and French sonder (“to probe”).[3] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sonder#Etymology https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sonder#Etymology
- msla 8y agoYes, Sonder is a word in German which means "special", as in the German term Sonderweg which is the German equivalent of "American Exceptionalism" ("German Exceptionalism", I suppose).
- beat 8y agoAny word in any language can be turned into an English word, simply by mispronouncing it.
- wenc 8y agoSonder is also quite a pedestrian word in German, as in "sonderangebot" (special offer, or sale!)
- bn-usd-mistake 8y agoThe German "sonder" referred to in this branch of the conversation (i.e. meaning special) is not a word on its own but a prefix for other words [0] (remember that germans like to build words from multiple separate parts and words). While "sonder" itself is a word, it means something different when used on its own (without) [1]. 0: https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Sonder_ https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Sonder_ 1: https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/sonder https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/sonder