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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name A review by Maria Popova on her blog The Marginalian.
Clicking links in The Marginalian leads one down rabbit holes more delightful than most of what the internet has on offer.
posted by kozad at 5:42 AM on April 14, 2024 [8 favorites]
posted by kozad at 5:42 AM on April 14, 2024 [8 favorites]
I am REALLY feeling the craxis these days.
posted by jenfullmoon at 11:18 AM on April 14, 2024
posted by jenfullmoon at 11:18 AM on April 14, 2024
> So it’s a liff, then?
I was going to say "a collection of sorrowful sniglets" but "liff" turns out to have priority.
posted by Aardvark Cheeselog at 11:55 AM on April 14, 2024 [1 favorite]
I was going to say "a collection of sorrowful sniglets" but "liff" turns out to have priority.
posted by Aardvark Cheeselog at 11:55 AM on April 14, 2024 [1 favorite]
I do like sonder but I also wish I was unaware of the term sonderkommando.
posted by DeepSeaHaggis at 1:15 PM on April 14, 2024
posted by DeepSeaHaggis at 1:15 PM on April 14, 2024
I bought this book based solely on the name, and would have been satisfied were that its only virtue.
Luckily this is so very far from the case. Any time I see it, I will open it to a random page and skim for an obscure sorrow to carry for the day.
posted by seraphine at 3:41 PM on April 14, 2024
Luckily this is so very far from the case. Any time I see it, I will open it to a random page and skim for an obscure sorrow to carry for the day.
posted by seraphine at 3:41 PM on April 14, 2024
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So it’s a liff, then?
posted by zamboni at 4:46 AM on April 14, 2024 [2 favorites]