Beautiful new words to describe obscure emotions | John Koenig

Translator: Nazarbek Nazarov Reviewer: Azizbek Nazarov

Today I want to talk about the meaning of words,

Men bugun so'zlarning ma'nolari haqida gapirmoqchiman.

how we define them

Ularni qanday belgilashimiz

and how they, almost as revenge,

va ular bizdan qanday o'ch olishi, bizni qanday

define us.

belgilashlari haqda.

The English language is a magnificent sponge.

Ingliz tili sehrli shimgich (gubka) ga o'xshaydi.

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

Men bu tilni sevaman, unda gapira olishimdan mamnunman.

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

Lekin ingliz tilida ham bo'shliqlar bor.

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

Grek tilida shunday bir so'z bor - "lacheism",

which is the hunger for disaster.

bu falokatga tashnalikni anglatadi.

You know, when you see a thunderstorm on the horizon

Bu siz ufqda bo'ronni ko'rayotib,

and you just find yourself rooting for the storm.

uni sabrsizlik bilan kutishingiz.

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

Xitoy tilida "yuyi" degan so'z bor,

I'm not pronouncing that correctly --

men uni noto'g'ri talaffuz qilaman.

which means the longing to feel intensely again

Bu nimadir tomonidan qo'lga olingan bo'lishni xoxlashni anglatadi.

the way you did when you were a kid.

Odatda bunaqasi bolalikda bo'ladi.

In Polish, they have a word "jouska"

Polyak tilidagi "juska" so'zi,

which is the kind of hypothetical conversation

bu ongimizda, boshimizda o'tkazadigan

that you compulsively play out in your head.

gipotetik suhbatga o'xshaydi.

And finally, in German, of course in German,

Va nihoyat, nemis tilida,

they have a word called "zielschmerz"

"silshmerts" so'zi bor,

which is the dread of getting what you want.

bu o'z istaganimizga erishishdan qo'rqishni anglatadi.

(Laughter)

(Kulgu)

Finally fulfilling a lifelong dream.

Butun hayotimiz orzusini amalga oshirish.

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

O'zim aslida nemisman, shunday ekan bu tuyg'u menga yaxshi tanish.

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

Bu so'zlar menga kerak bo'lishiga ishonchim komil emas.

as I go about my day,

Kundalik hayotda.

but I'm really glad they exist.

Lekin men ularning mavjudligidan hursandman.

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

Biroq ular faqat men ularni o'ylab topganim uchun mavjud.

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

Men "Sirli qayg'u lug'ati"ning muallifiman.

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

Uni so'ngi 7 yil davomida yozganman.

And the whole mission of the project

Loyihaning maqsadi —

is to find holes in the language of emotion

tildagi emotsiyalarni tasvirlovchi bo'shliqlarni qidirish,

and try to fill them

ularni to'ldirish,

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

til orqali biz xis qiladigan barcha nozikliklar

and quirks of the human condition

va g'alati yoki murakkab hissiyotlarni

that we all feel but may not think to talk about

ifoda eta olish uchun shu kabi so'zlarni

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

o'ylab topishdir.

And about halfway through this project,

Loyihaning o'rtalariga kelib,

I defined "sonder,"

"sonder" so'ziga ta'rif berdim:

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

uning g'oyasi shundaki, hammamiz o'zimiz haqimizda asosiy qahramon

and everyone else is just extras.

sifatida o'ylaymiz, qolganlar biz uchun statistlar.

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

Lekin aslida hammamiz asosiy qahramonlarmiz,

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

sizning o'zingiz esa kimningdir tarixida olomonsiz.

And so as soon as I published that,

Buni nashr qilgach,

I got a lot of response from people

juda ko'p insonlardan fikrlarini,

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

"Butun umr davomida his qilganlarimizni tushuntirib berganingiz uchun rahmat"

but there was no word for that."

kabi tashakkurnomalar oldim. Ular

So it made them feel less alone.

endi o'zini yolg'iz his qilmasdi.

That's the power of words,

Mana so'zlarning kuchi nimada,

to make us feel less alone.

ular yolg'izlik hissini yo'qotadi.

And it was not long after that

Nashrdan keyin tez orada,

that I started to notice sonder

"sonder" so'zini onlayn-muloqotda

being used earnestly in conversations online,

jiddiy qo'llay boshlashganini guvohi bo'la boshladim.

and not long after I actually noticed it,

Yana biroz vaqt o'tib esa

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

men bu so'zni jonli muloqotda eshitib qoldim.

There is no stranger feeling than making up a word

G'alati bir tuyg'u xis qilasiz, qachonki,

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

siz o'ylab topgan so'z sizdan alohida yashashni boshlaganida.

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

Menda buning uchun hozircha yangi so'z yo'q.

(Laughter)

(Kulgu)

I'm working on it.

Buning ustida ishlayman.

I started to think about what makes words real,

Men so'zlarni nima real qilishi haqida o'ylanib qoldim,

because a lot of people ask me,

bunday deb ko'pchilik

the most common thing I got from people is,

so'rashiga sabab, ko'pincha:

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

"Bu so'zlar o'ylab topilganmi? Negadir tushunmayapman".

And I didn't really know what to tell them

Va men rostdan ham qanday javob berishni,

because once sonder started to take off,

"sonder" qanday tilga kirganini bilmayman

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

umuman so'zlarnining realligini baholashga haqlimanmi...

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

Natijada men o'zimni xuddi miyasiga yangi fikr kelgan Stiv Jobsdek his qildim.

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

Hayotda ko'pchiligimiz boshimizni tez-tez

we just try to avoid bouncing against the walls too much

devorga urilishidan qochishga harakat qilamiz,

and just sort of get on with things.

va oldinga qarab intilamiz.

But once you realize that people --

Va qachonki dunyo bizdan aqlliroq bo'lmagan insonlar

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

tomonidan yaratilganini tushunganingizda, qo'lingizni ko'tarib o'sha devorni

then you can reach out and touch those walls

ushlaysiz, hattoki devorning narigi tomoniga

and even put your hand through them

o'ta olishingiz, sizda dunyoni

and realize that you have the power to change it.

o'zgartira olish uchun kuch borligini tushunasiz.

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

Va menga "Bu so'zlar haqiqiymi?" deb savol berishganida, men bularga

I had a variety of answers that I tried out.

javoblar qidirardim, va odatda javoblar

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

ba'zan aqlli, ba'zan be'mani bo'lardi.

But one of them I tried out was,

Masalan:

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

"So'z aynan siz u haqiqiy bo'lishini xoxlaganingizda haqiqiyga aylanadi".

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

Xuddi shu yo'lakdek: insonlar uni shu yerda bo'lishini istagani uchun u mavjud.

(Laughter)

(Kulgu)

It happens on college campuses all the time.

Talabalar shaharchasida bunday tekislik ko'p.

It's called a "desire path."

Bu "orzu yo'lakchasi".

(Laughter)

(Kulgu)

But then I decided, what people are really asking

Keyin men shunday o'yladim: aslida so'zlarning

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

haqiqiyligi borasida so'rayotib, ular bu so'zlarni

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

qanchalik darajada ishlata olishlari haqida bilishni xohlashadi.

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

Chunki, o'ylashimcha, biz tilni aynan shunday ishlatamiz.

A word is essentially a key

So'z - bu kalitga o'xshaydi,

that gets us into certain people's heads.

u bizga insonlarning fikrlarini ochadi.

And if it gets us into one brain,

Agar so'zni faqat bitta inson tushunsa,

it's not really worth it,

u unchalik ahamiyatli,

not really worth knowing.

qimmatli emas.

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

Ikkita inson — ularning kim ekanliklariga bog'liq.

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

Million — yaxshi, bu boshqa gap.

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

Natijada so'zlarning haqiqiyligi, uning qancha insonga tanish ekanligiga bog'liq.

That's what makes it worth knowing.

Qanchalik ko'p bo'lsa, shuncha yaxshi, demak bu so'z shunga arziydi.

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

Shu fikr bo'yicha biz aytishimiz mumkinki, eng haqiqiy so'z bu

[O.K.]

[O.K.]

That's it.

U mavjud so'zlar ichida

The realest word we have.

eng haqiqiysidir.

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

U xuddi barcha eshiklarga kalitdek.

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

Dunyoning har bir burchagida har bir inson

no matter where you are.

tushuna oladigan so'z.

The problem with that is,

Muammo shundaki,

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

bu ikkita harfning asl ma'nosini hech kim bilmaydi.

(Laughter)

(Kulgu)

Which is kind of weird, right?

Bu g'alati, shunday emasmi?

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

Bu «all correct» ning noto'g'ri yozilgan shakli bo'lishi mumkin,

or "old kinderhook."

yoki "Old Kinderhook".

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

Hech kim bilmaydi, lekin bu muhim emas,

says something about how we add meaning to words.

aslida o'zimiz uni turli ma'nolar bilan boyitamiz.

The meaning is not in the words themselves.

Ma'no so'zning o'zida mujassam emas.

We're the ones that pour ourselves into it.

Biz unga ma'no taqdim etamiz.

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

O'ylaymanki, so'zlar bizga hayotimiz mazmunini

and searching for the meaning of life,

topishda qaysidir darajada

I think words have something to do with that.

yordam bera oladi.

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

Agar siz nimanidir ma'nosini qidirayotgan bo'lsangiz,

the dictionary is a decent place to start.

lug'at siz uchun ajoyib yordamchi.

It brings a sense of order

U bizga mazmun taqdim etadi va bu murakkab

to a very chaotic universe.

dunyoda tartib o'rnatadi.

Our view of things is so limited

Bizning narsalarga bo'lgan nazarimiz

that we have to come up with patterns and shorthands

shunchalar chegaralangan, shartli ma'nolarga o'rganganmiz.

and try to figure out a way to interpret it

Ba'zi sirlarni ochishga, keyin esa ularni

and be able to get on with our day.

hayotimizda qo'llashga intilamiz.

We need words to contain us, to define ourselves.

So'zlar bizga ko'proq ular bizni to'ldirib turishi uchun ham kerak.

I think a lot of us feel boxed in

Menimcha ko'pchiligimiz o'zimizni ma'lum

by how we use these words.

bir ramka ichida his qilamiz.

We forget that words are made up.

So'zlar o'ylab topilgani haqida unutib qo'yamiz.

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

Nafaqat mening so'zlarim, barcha so'zlar.

but not all of them mean something.

Lekin ularning hammasi ham ma'no

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

anglatmaydi. Hammamiz ham o'z leksikonimiz tuzog'ida joylashganmiz.

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

Va u boshqa insonlarniki bilan bir xil bo'lishi shart emas.

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

Biz so'zlarni qanchalik jiddiy qabul qilsak,

the more seriously we take words.

bu kabi farqlar yanada kattayaveradi.

Because remember, words are not real.

Shuning uchun ham unutmangki: so'zlar haqiqiy emas.

They don't have meaning. We do.

Ma'nolarni ular emas, biz saqlaymiz.

And I'd like to leave you with a reading

Yakunda, sevimli faylasuflarimdan biri

from one of my favorite philosophers,

Bill Uoterson, "Kelvin va Xobbs" komiksi

Bill Watterson, who created "Calvin and Hobbes."

muallifining so'zlarini keltirmoqchiman.

He said,

U shunday degan:

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

"Sizning qadriyatlaringizni aks ettirib, ruhingizni shod etadigan hayot qurish,

is a rare achievement.

juda mushkul yutuq.

To invent your own life's meaning

O'z hayot yo'lingizni o'ylab topish

is not easy,

oson ish emas,

but it is still allowed,

lekin iloji bor. Va o'ylaymanki,

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

alabatta harakatlaringiz uchun taqdirlanasiz".

Thank you.

Rahmat.

(Applause)

(Qarsaklar)