Beautiful new words to describe obscure emotions | John Koenig

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Today I want to talk about the meaning of words,

Danas želim da govorim o značenju reči,

how we define them

kako ih definišemo

and how they, almost as revenge,

i kako one, skoro kao iz osvete,

define us.

definišu nas.

The English language is a magnificent sponge.

Engleski jezik je veličanstven sunđer.

I love the English language. I'm glad that I speak it.

Volim engleski jezik, drago mi je što ga govorim.

But for all that, it has a lot of holes.

Ali uz sve to, ima mnogo praznina.

In Greek, there's a word, "lachesism"

U grčkom postoji reč "lachesism"

which is the hunger for disaster.

što znači žudnja za katastrofom.

You know, when you see a thunderstorm on the horizon

Znate, kad vidite munju na horizontu

and you just find yourself rooting for the storm.

i prosto se zateknete kako navijate za munju.

In Mandarin, they have a word "yù yī" --

U mandarinskom imaju reč "yù yī" -

I'm not pronouncing that correctly --

ne izgovaram je tačno -

which means the longing to feel intensely again

a to označava žudnju da naš život ima intenzitet

the way you did when you were a kid.

koji je imao kad smo bili dete.

In Polish, they have a word "jouska"

U poljskom imaju reč "jouska"

which is the kind of hypothetical conversation

a to je neki vid hipotetičkog razgovora

that you compulsively play out in your head.

koji kompulsivno ponavljate u glavi.

And finally, in German, of course in German,

I, naposletku, u nemačkom, naravno u nemačkom,

they have a word called "zielschmerz"

imaju reč koja se naziva "zielschmerz"

which is the dread of getting what you want.

a to je strah od dobijanja onoga što želite.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

Finally fulfilling a lifelong dream.

Konačnog ispunjenja celoživotnog sna.

I'm German myself, so I know exactly what that feels like.

Ja sam Nemac, pa tačno znam kakav je to osećaj.

Now, I'm not sure if I would use any of these words

Sad, nisam siguran da bih koristio bilo koju od ovih reči

as I go about my day,

u svojoj svakodnevici,

but I'm really glad they exist.

ali mi je zaista drago što postoje.

But the only reason they exist is because I made them up.

Ali jedini razlog zašto postoje je zato što sam ih ja izmislio.

I am the author of "The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows,"

Ja sam autor "Rečnika nejasnih tuga",

which I've been writing for the last seven years.

koga sam pisao poslednjih sedam godina.

And the whole mission of the project

A čitava misija projekta

is to find holes in the language of emotion

je da se pronađu praznine u jeziku za osećanja

and try to fill them

i da ih pokušam popuniti

so that we have a way of talking about all those human peccadilloes

kako bismo mogli da razgovaramo o svim tim ljudskim sitnim gresima

and quirks of the human condition

i kapricima ljudskog stanja

that we all feel but may not think to talk about

koje svi mi osećamo, ali možda ne pomišljamo da govorimo o njima

because we don't have the words to do it.

jer nemamo reči za njih.

And about halfway through this project,

I otprilike na polovini ovog projekta

I defined "sonder,"

sam definisao "sonder",

the idea that we all think of ourselves as the main character

zamisao da svi sebe smatramo glavnim likom,

and everyone else is just extras.

a da su svi ostali samo statisti.

But in reality, we're all the main character,

Međutim, u stvarnosti, svi smo glavni likovi,

and you yourself are an extra in someone else's story.

a vi sami ste statista u nečijoj priči.

And so as soon as I published that,

Te, čim sam to objavio,

I got a lot of response from people

dobio sam mnogo poruka od ljudi

saying, "Thank you for giving voice to something I had felt all my life

govorili su: "Hvala što si dao glas nečemu što sam osećao čitav život,

but there was no word for that."

ali nije postojala reč za to."

So it made them feel less alone.

Stoga su se osećali manje usamljeno.

That's the power of words,

To je snaga reči,

to make us feel less alone.

da se zbog njih osećamo manje usamljeno.

And it was not long after that

A nedugo potom

that I started to notice sonder

sam počeo da primećujem da se sonder

being used earnestly in conversations online,

ozbiljno koristi u razgovorima na internetu,

and not long after I actually noticed it,

a nedugo nakon što sam to zapravo primetio,

I caught it next to me in an actual conversation in person.

lično sam je čuo u stvarnom razgovoru koji se vodio pored mene.

There is no stranger feeling than making up a word

Nema čudnijeg osećaja od toga kad izmislite reč

and then seeing it take on a mind of its own.

i onda vidite kako se osamostaljuje.

I don't have a word for that yet, but I will.

Još uvek nemam reč za to, ali imaću.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

I'm working on it.

Radim na tome.

I started to think about what makes words real,

Počeo sam da razmišljam o tome šta čini reči stvarnim

because a lot of people ask me,

jer me mnogi ljudi pitaju,

the most common thing I got from people is,

najčešće pitanje koje mi postavljaju je:

"Well, are these words made up? I don't really understand."

"Pa, da li su ove reči izmišljene? Ne razumem baš najbolje."

And I didn't really know what to tell them

I ja zaista ne znam šta da im kažem

because once sonder started to take off,

jer čim je sonder prhvaćena,

who am I to say what words are real and what aren't.

ko sam ja da tvrdim koje reči su stvarne, a koje nisu.

And so I sort of felt like Steve Jobs, who described his epiphany

Pa sam se osećao nekako kao Stiv Džobs, koji je opisao svoje otkrovenje

as when he realized that most of us, as we go through the day,

kada je shvatio da većina nas, dok se svakodnevno krećemo,

we just try to avoid bouncing against the walls too much

prosto pokušavamo da izbegnemo prečesto udaranje u zidove

and just sort of get on with things.

i prosto težimo da idemo dalje.

But once you realize that people --

Ali čim shvatite da ljudi -

that this world was built by people no smarter than you,

da su ovaj svet sagradili ljudi koji nisu pametniji od vas,

then you can reach out and touch those walls

onda možete da posegnete i dodirnete te zidove,

and even put your hand through them

čak i da provučete ruku kroz njih

and realize that you have the power to change it.

i da shvatite da imate moć da ih promenite.

And when people ask me, "Are these words real?"

Kad me ljudi pitaju: "Jesu li te reči stvarne?"

I had a variety of answers that I tried out.

Imam niz odgovora koje sam iskušao.

Some of them made sense. Some of them didn't.

Neki imaju smisla. Neki nemaju.

But one of them I tried out was,

Ali jedan od njih je glasio:

"Well, a word is real if you want it to be real."

"Pa, reč je stvarna, ako želite da bude stvarna."

The way that this path is real because people wanted it to be there.

Razlog zašto je ova staza stvarna je jer su ljudi želeli da bude tu.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

It happens on college campuses all the time.

To se stalno dešava na kampusima fakulteta.

It's called a "desire path."

Naziva se "stazom žudnje".

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

But then I decided, what people are really asking

Ali onda sam shvatio da ljudi zaista pitaju,

when they're asking if a word is real, they're really asking,

kad pitaju da li je reč stvarna, zaista pitaju:

"Well, how many brains will this give me access to?"

"Pa, kolikom broju mozgova ću imati pristup ovom rečju?"

Because I think that's a lot of how we look at language.

Zato što smatram da tako uglavnom gledamo na jezik.

A word is essentially a key

Reč je u suštini ključ

that gets us into certain people's heads.

koji nas vodi u glave određenih ljudi.

And if it gets us into one brain,

A ako nas vodi u jedan mozak,

it's not really worth it,

zaista nije vredna truda,

not really worth knowing.

nije vredna da je znate.

Two brains, eh, it depends on who it is.

Dva mozga, eh, zavisi čiji su.

A million brains, OK, now we're talking.

Milion mozgova, u redu, sad se razumemo.

And so a real word is one that gets you access to as many brains as you can.

Dakle, stvarna reč je ona koja vam daje pristup što većem broju mozgova.

That's what makes it worth knowing.

To je ono što je čini vrednom znanja.

Incidentally, the realest word of all by this measure is this.

Slučajno, najstvarnija reč od svih prema ovom merenju je ova.

[O.K.]

[O.K.]

That's it.

To je to.

The realest word we have.

Najstvarnija reč koju imamo.

That is the closest thing we have to a master key.

To je najbliže što imamo univerzalnom ključu.

That's the most commonly understood word in the world,

To je najrazumljivija reč na svetu,

no matter where you are.

bez obzira na to gde bili.

The problem with that is,

Problem s tim

no one seems to know what those two letters stand for.

je što izgleda da niko ne zna šta ta slova predstavljaju.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

Which is kind of weird, right?

Što je nekako čudno, zar ne?

I mean, it could be a misspelling of "all correct," I guess,

Mislim, mogla bi da bude greška kod pisanja "all correct", valjda,

or "old kinderhook."

ili "old kinderhook."

No one really seems to know, but the fact that it doesn't matter

Čini se da niko zaista ne zna, ali činjenica da nije važno

says something about how we add meaning to words.

govori nešto o tome kako rečima dajemo smisao.

The meaning is not in the words themselves.

Značenje nije u samim rečima.

We're the ones that pour ourselves into it.

Mi smo ti koji se pretačemo u njih.

And I think, when we're all searching for meaning in our lives,

I mislim kada svi mi tragamo za smislom u našim životima

and searching for the meaning of life,

i kad tragamo za smislom života,

I think words have something to do with that.

mislim da reči imaju neke veze s tim.

And I think if you're looking for the meaning of something,

I mislim da ako tragate za smislom nečega,

the dictionary is a decent place to start.

rečnik je pristojno mesto za početak.

It brings a sense of order

Donosi utisak reda

to a very chaotic universe.

u veoma neurednom univerzumu.

Our view of things is so limited

Naše viđenje stvari je toliko ograničeno

that we have to come up with patterns and shorthands

da moramo da izmislimo obrasce i prečice

and try to figure out a way to interpret it

i da pokušamo da pronađemo način da to protumačimo

and be able to get on with our day.

i budemo u stanju da nastavimo dan.

We need words to contain us, to define ourselves.

Potrebne su nam reči da nas sadrže, da nas definišu.

I think a lot of us feel boxed in

Mislim da se mnogi od nas osećaju stešnjeno

by how we use these words.

zbog toga kako koristimo reči.

We forget that words are made up.

Zaboravljamo da su reči izmišljene.

It's not just my words. All words are made up,

Ne samo moje reči, sve reči su izmišljene,

but not all of them mean something.

ali sve one ne znače nešto.

We're all just sort of trapped in our own lexicons

Svi smo mi na neki način zarobljeni u našim ličnim leksikonima

that don't necessarily correlate with people who aren't already like us,

koji se nužno ne poklapaju sa ljudima koji već nisu kao mi

and so I think I feel us drifting apart a little more every year,

i zato imam utisak da se udaljavamo svake godine sve više,

the more seriously we take words.

što ozbiljnije shvatamo reči.

Because remember, words are not real.

Jer, setite se, reči nisu stvarne.

They don't have meaning. We do.

Nemaju značenje. Mi imamo.

And I'd like to leave you with a reading

I želeo bih da završim čitanjem

from one of my favorite philosophers,

jednog od mojih omiljenih filozofa,

Bill Watterson, who created "Calvin and Hobbes."

Bila Votersona, koji je stvorio "Kalvina i Hobsa."

He said,

Rekao je:

"Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul

"Stvoriti život koji odražava vaše vrednosti i prija vašoj duši

is a rare achievement.

je nesvakidašnji uspeh.

To invent your own life's meaning

Pronaći smisao sopstvenog života

is not easy,

nije lako,

but it is still allowed,

ali je i dalje dozvoljeno

and I think you'll be happier for the trouble."

i mislim da ćete zbog truda biti srećniji."

Thank you.

Hvala vam.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)