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There's something gross about people trying to force this sonder neologism through but I can't put my finger on it I'm hardly a prescriptivist either

• labrador 3y ago
  I think of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows as an art project. I never got the impression that we were supposed to start using these words. It's interesting and entertaining, like when I learned the Czech word "litost" from "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" by Milan Kundera. "Litost is a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery." Part five of this book is about Litost, a kind of misery-induced torment only known to the Czech people. You could see it is a Slavic thing. https://fictionbeast.com/milan-kundera-the-unbearable-ligthness-of-existence https://fictionbeast.com/milan-kundera-the-unbearable-ligthn... Something akin to how I felt trapped in my own drama
  • p3rls 3y ago
    Listen, if Robert Burton didn't see fit to include it in the Anatomy of Melancholy it doesn't exist. Same goes for all this DSM stuff. Doesn't exist.
    • labrador 3y ago
      Your knowledge cutoff is 1621. That's an interesting way to avoid modern misinformation.
• CPLX 3y ago
  It’s a great word that evokes a very specific experience what’s not to like about it. Is there some other way words are created besides people just sort of using them?