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From K UED in San Francisco, I'm Nina Kim.

Forum is off today, and we're bringing you an episode from the archives.

Have you ever felt slip fast or a longing to melt into a crowd and become invisible?

Or maybe scabulous, proud of a certain scar on your body?

John Canig finds the gaps that exist in the language of emotion and tries to fill them.

He's put those words into a book, more than 10 years in the making, titled The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.

We'll learn a few more from his compendium and why he thinks vast holes in our emotional lexicon exist. I'm going to be. I'm going to I'm going to

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I'm Mina Kim.

Heart spur. It means the unexpected surge of emotion in response to a seemingly innocuous trigger.

And it's one of the many words John Koenig has created for emotions we've felt but lacked words to describe.

Developing a richer language for our

emotional or interior lives has been a more than decade-long project of Canigs,

which began as a blog and now has become a book, the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.

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