(With thanks to @TsviBT, @Lucie Philippon, and @johnswentworth for encouragement and feedback, among many.)

Seven entries from a dictionary that will never exist, even though it should. The words in [brackets] show up with some frequency in my thoughts, and I struggle with English's semantic poverty. Some of them show up in other languages, like Korean or Lojban. Others among them, people I’ve spoken to share in wishing were wider-used words.

[untranslatable 1: word-clogged/interference-silent] (adj): Of a person or their state of mind. Descriptive of the phenomenon where a person has multiple different things to say about a specific topic, or multiple different responses or reactions to a remark an interlocutor has made, only one of which can be taken. To be tongue-tied not out of a lack of things to say, but out of an overabundance of mutually exclusive things to say, all of equal priority [...]

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First published:
October 26th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2uaj4oFCcfAAZpGka/seven-ish-words-from-my-thought-language

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“Seven-ish Words from My Thought-Language” by Lorxus

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“Seven-ish Words from My Thought-Language” by Lorxus