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用優美的新詞語去描繪朦朧的感情

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約翰柯尼 |

TEDxBerkeley

• February 2016

約翰柯尼 (John Koenig) 喜歡尋找新詞語來表達我們不善於表達的感受，比如說「lachesism」的意思是對災難的渴望，「sonder」的意思是對「每個人的生命和我們一樣複雜、無常」這句話的領悟。在此，他帶我們一起省思我們賦予字含義的意義，並向我們解釋這些詞語的含義會如何影響著我們的命運。

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約翰柯尼 (John Koenig) 喜歡尋找新詞語來表達我們不善於表達的感受，比如說「lachesism」的意思是對災難的渴望，「sonder」的意思是對「每個人的生命和我們一樣複雜、無常」這句話的領悟。在此，他帶我們一起省思我們賦予字含義的意義，並向我們解釋這些詞語的含義會如何影響著我們的命運。

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