What’s the source for this? The few I checked didn’t come up in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. “Altschmerz” looks German, but doesn’t come up in my German dictionaries.
I found this which is about The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, where someone recently made to create terms about those feelings (they even have a YT channel).
Yeah, this always gets passed around without credit to the author. They’re not real words, but are poems and invented words by John Koeing (possibly other words mixed in).
What’s the source for this? The few I checked didn’t come up in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. “Altschmerz” looks German, but doesn’t come up in my German dictionaries.
A lot of them come from the dictionary of obscure sorrows.
So not anything that’s credible in educational circles
Dictionaries include words that are commonly used, so if a lot of people start using them, then they’ll be credible
Language is weird.
True, this is a perfectly cromulent opinion.
The study of language is descriptive, not prescriptive
It’s why dictionaries have new word of the year contests that get won by things like “goblin-mode”
Language evolves every day
I found this which is about The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, where someone recently made to create terms about those feelings (they even have a YT channel).
Yeah, this always gets passed around without credit to the author. They’re not real words, but are poems and invented words by John Koeing (possibly other words mixed in).
I first came across most of these on his YouTube channel Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.
There is also a blog and a book has also been released.
Altschmerz would mean something like old-pain if translated directly from German I think