Expanding our experiential horizons through untranslatable words
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Tim Lomas |
TEDxZurich
• November 2018
Untranslatable words – terms without an exact equivalent in our own language – can expand our horizons and transform our lives. They have the potential to help us better understand and articulate our experiences, and can even reveal new phenomena which had previously been veiled to us. For the past three years I've been creating a crowd-sourced lexicography of untranslatable words relating to wellbeing (see www.drtimlomas.com/lexicography), which currently features nearly 1000 words. Collectively these words provide an illuminating and detailed map of wellbeing, one with the potential to open people up to new ways of seeing and being in the world.