THE LOGOPHILE LEXICON
PART II: DEFINITION AND MEANING
IN THIS SECTION
2.1: Definition and Meaning
2.2a: Parts of Speech
2.2b: Types of Words
2.3a: Translating the Untranslatable
2.3b: Translating Creativity and Words
2.4: Naming Conventions
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2.1: Definition and Meaning
2.2a: Parts of Speech
2.2b: Types of Words
2.3a: Translating the Untranslatable
2.3b: Translating Creativity and Words
2.4: Naming Conventions
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2.3 The Untranslatable Words of Creativity
BRICOLEUR - someone who starts building something with no clear plan, adding bits here and there, cobbling together a whole while flying by the seat of their pants.’ (French)
CACOËTHES LOQUENDI - irresistible urge to speak. (French)
CACOËTHES SCRIBENDI - irresistible urge to write. (French)
DUENDE - This word captures an entire world of passion, energy, and artistic excellence and describes a climactic show of spirit in a performance or work of art. Duende originally meant "imp" or "goblin" and came to mean anything magical. It now has a depth and complexity of meaning that crosses artistic borders. (Spanish)
ESPRIT de L’ESCALIER - A witty remark that occurs to you too late, literally on the way down the stairs. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations defines esprit de l'escalier as, "An untranslatable phrase, the meaning of which is that one only thinks on one's way downstairs of the smart retort one might have made in the drawing room." (French)
GOYA – A suspension of disbelief that can occur, often through good storytelling. (Urdu)
IKIGAI - a reason for being; the thing that gets you up in the morning. (Japanese)
ISTORIES ME ARKOUDES - Literally “stories with bears.” It means stories that are so crazy, they can't be true.
LIBROCUBICULARIST - name for a person who reads books in bed. The first syllable of the word is based on Latin liber, which originally denoted the inner bark of a tree, and later came to be used for a sheet of papyrus used for writing before acquiring the additional senses of "book, volume, long document" and "a division of a long literary work" (and, yes, it is the source of library and librarian). Latin cubiculum, meaning "bedroom," which itself is from cubare, "to lie" or "to recline" and from which English cubicle is derived. (Latin)
MAC KHACH - a person who is in love with literature and appreciates its beauty. (Vietnamese)
MERAKI - This is a word that modern Greeks often use to describe doing something with soul, creativity, or love -- when you put "something of yourself" into what you're doing, whatever it may be. The closest English saying is ‘labour of love’, but this has a more negative connotation. The word meraki is positive and all-consuming, with its roots found in merak, a Turkish term meaning to do something with pleasure.(Greek)
NEFELIBATA - A cloud walker; One who lives in the cloud of their own imagination or dreams, or one who does not abide by the precepts of society, literature, or art; An unconventional, unorthodox person. From Ancient Greek νεφελοβάτης (nephelobátēs, “one who walks the clouds”), from νεφέλη (nephélē, “cloud”) + -βᾰ́της (-bátēs, “walker”). (Portuguese)
OSTRANENIE – Like defamiliarization, but more specifically to encourage oneself or another to view something normal as exciting or profound. (Russian)
QUERENCIA – A place where one draws inspiration or strength from, or the place where one feels most comfortable and true. (Spanish)
RAASKIA - To have the heart, courage to do something. (Finnish)
RASTROPHILIOPUSTROCITY - a combustible creative spark followed by action to see it through.
RUHE - Peace and quiet, when nothing around you bothers you and you feel calm and good. Also the designated quiet time in a neighborhood. (German)
SISU - translates as “stick-with-it-ness”, and that is exactly what it is. It means to be stubborn, determined and sometimes stupidly brave. (Finnish)
SCRIPTURIENT - Having or characterized by a strong urge to write, or a passion for writing. In early use especially: that produces an abundance of trivial or inferior writing; characterized by this. Mid 17th century (in an earlier sense). From post-classical Latin scripturient-, scripturiens, present participle of scripturire meaning “desire to write. “ (Latin) It is from a book by Peter Heylyn, a seventeenth-century English author whose Examen Historicum (1659) sought to debunk the errors made in recent works of history.
TACHIYOMI - to stand in a bookstore and read a book without buying it. (Japanese)
TACENDA – A statement or sentiment that is better left unspoken. (Latin)
TARAB - musically induced ecstasy or enchantment. Though the specific songs, emotional reactions, and reasons behind those reactions may vary from person to person, being moved by music is a universal experience—even babies sometimes cry when they hear certain songs. In Arabic, this sense of losing yourself in the music is called tarab. (Arabic)
TEMUL - is a Mongol root meaning to rush headlong, to be inspired or to have a sense of creative thought, and even to take a flight of fancy. It gave Genghis Khan's original name: Temujin. (Mongolian)
TREPVERTER – Literally, staircase words, a witty riposte or comeback you think of only when it is too late to use. (Yiddish)
TSUNDOKU – The act of leaving a book unread after buying it, typically piling it up together with other such unread books.(Japanese)
UITWAAIEN – Literally “to walk in the wind,” it is to take a brief break in order to clear one’s head. (Dutch)
VADE MECUM - literally translated as ‘go with me.’ Used in reference to a book that – like a friend – is a wise, helpful and constant guide through life. To be a vade mecum is the ideal to which all literature aspires. Marcus Aurelius’s wise and consoling Meditations, written c. 180 AD, are an ideal vade mecum. (Latin)
VERSCHLIMMBESSERN - to accidentally make something worse in the process of attempting to mend or improve it. (German)
WABI – A flawed detail that creates an elegant whole. (Japanese)
YOKO MESHI - This is how the Japanese define the peculiar stress induced by speaking a foreign language: yoko is a humorous reference to the fact that Japanese is normally written vertically, whereas most foreign languages are written horizontally. (Japanese)
ZANSHIN - a state of relaxed mental alertness (especially in the face of danger or stress). (Japanese)
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