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A New Term For "Eucatastrophe" - Existential Hope #3

Open jdhodgkins opened 2 years ago

jdhodgkins commented 2 years ago

“I coined the word ’eucatastrophe’: the sudden happy turn in a story which pierces you with a joy that brings tears...this is indeed how things really do work in the Great World for which our nature is made.” —JRR Tolkien

Within the Existential Hope community a word that is commonly used is “eucatastrophe”. It is derived from Greek and basically means “good surprise”. Originally coined by J.R.R Tolkien, and later described by Oxford-researchers Owen Cotton-Barratt and Toby Ord to suggest that ”an existential eucatastrophe is an event which causes there to be much more expected value after the event than before.”

However, when many people hear the word, it just sounds like someone pronouncing the word “catastrophe” in an odd way, so that’s where our minds tend to go.

Because of the unfortunate connotations of the word as it is currently, we want to collect a better term for “eucatastrophe”. Be it derived from greek, latin or any other language, that doesn't matter. What matters is that when people hear the word, they think of a big positive surprise and get excited about the future!

What is a better term for “eucatastrophe”?

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gitcoinbot commented 2 years ago

Issue Status: 1. Open 2. Started 3. Submitted 4. Done

This issue now has a funding of 0.15 ETH (488.79 USD @ $3258.61/ETH) attached to it as part of the https://github.com/foresight-org fund.

gitcoinbot commented 2 years ago

Issue Status: 1. Open 2. Started 3. Submitted 4. Done

Work has been started.

These users each claimed they can complete the work by 1 month, 2 weeks from now. Please review their action plans below:

1) ellhe-blaster has started work.

new term: euvictorious explanation (from eucatastrophe): term used to direct facts, like Mao Tse Tung said "always end with a victory" 2) mmarmmo has started work.

  1. performing research into the Existential Hope community, its vision and values and the context from which the need for this term arises

  2. researching eucatastrophic research into the underlying metaphorical, semantic, semiotic, and sound symbolic domains of the targeted meaning

  3. developing and testing a list of candidate terms for the concept

  4. delivering presentation proposing term 3) bucko504 has started work.

I will ask family and friends. will provide a collection of the better ideas shortly after. 4) vcidst has started work.

I will research the possibilities of alternatives words or probably new word that can be coin to accommodate this meaning 5) ify01 has started work.

I gist I have a perfect term for it. 6) okeaguugochukwu has started work.

I will coin out a perfect word for eucatastrophe .I have MSC in linguistics 7) cyber-bot has started work.

I will Create a Word that has a similar meaning to Good Change. This word will be derived from Latin. 8) rshar95 has started work.

Hi, I would like to propose a new term that's originally derived from Sanskrit which is one of the oldest languages in the world, with having intersectional phonetics in a lot of Indo-European continents as well as the language east Asian mysticism. 9) bischcoin has started work.

I'll do a brain dump similar to what I do for product naming. 10) rezahsnz has started work.

"Gleðitár" or "Gleði tár" is an Icelandic word for "tears of joy" as in "Stingum Af"

" . . . Stingum af Smá fjölskyldu hjörð Senn fjúka barna ár Upp í loft, út á sjó Verðmæt gleðitár "

which translates to " Let's run away A little family herd Once children are blown away Up in the air, out to sea Valuable tears of joy "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2tBW0nEh6s 11) rzvl has started work.

I will coin a new word which can be a better equivalent for "eucatastrophe"... 12) dale-q has started work.

Eustrophe, -eu means positive, -strophe means wind 13) zannis has started work.

Suggest a word with a meaning similar to 'eucatastrophe' 14) missaishagurung has started work.

Start brainstorming to come up with a alternative 15) limchiahau has started work.

I think sometimes, simplicity is the best answer. 16) davidmanheim has started work.

Based on earlier research and discussions, I plan to mention some terms that are worth considering 17) skluug has started work.

I will submit my suggested word. 18) ryancarey has started work.

A "catastrophe" is a down (kata-) turn (strephein), so its opposite could be an "anastrophe" (an upturn).

The word "anastrophe" does already have a meaning in linguistics, but plenty of useful words have two meanings that can be distinguished based on context, so I expect this would be the case here.

This idea came up in a conversation at FHI, but I forget with whom... 19) kaimicahmills has started work.

Search for fitting terms to replace eucatastrophe. 20) michemcc has started work.

Find appropriate word, comment it on the GitHub issue with explanation. Thanks! 21) michhuan has started work.

Look up the etymology of catastrophe and eucatastrophe 22) sjd192 has started work.

First step is to look at related words, their etymologies, meanings, etc for a fit, then narrow down to a shortlist before deciding on the most appropriate term based on relevance, clarity, etc 23) valu42 has started work.

My suggestion is

Existential triumph 24) tmichaelkelly has started work.

Proposed word: Beneboom.

Bene from the Latin for "well" as in benevolent, beneficial. Boom as in a sudden increase in something positive such as a baby boom, a stock market boom, a boom in interest, etc. 25) worldsaround has started work.

My suggestion is "eumetastrophe" 26) caryoscelus has started work.

https://gist.github.com/caryoscelus/d882665bbe99131afd35cdb480fdef62 27) eageroptions has started work.

  1. Post current idea(s)
  2. Update list if I get more candidate ideas 28) to617617 has started work.

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gitcoinbot commented 2 years ago

Issue Status: 1. Open 2. Started 3. Submitted 4. Done

Work for 0.15 ETH (274.06 USD @ $1827.07/ETH) has been submitted by:

  1. @ellhe-blaster
  2. @abuchtela
  3. @ify01
  4. @okeaguugochukwu
  5. @cyber-bot
  6. @rshar95
  7. @bischcoin
  8. @rezahsnz
  9. @dale-q
  10. @rzvl
  11. @zannis
  12. @limchiahau
  13. @davidmanheim
  14. @ryancarey
  15. @kaimicahmills
  16. @michemcc
  17. @michhuan
  18. @worldsaround
  19. @leximits
  20. @florabene78
  21. @caryoscelus
  22. @mmarmmo

@jdhodgkins please take a look at the submitted work:

kalpshah18 commented 2 years ago

'Bonatatio' could be a word that you could coin for Sudden Good Change. This Word is Derived from Latin: Bona Mutatio. This is a Submission for the Bug Bounty. Eth Address: 0xC543f9A0BFCaF6E393d56d59C042F49573e23f80

michemcc commented 2 years ago

I will go with "Delajoy". In spirit of existentialism I went with French: "au-dela de" meaning above or beyond, and "joy" is of course joy. Delajoy is the feeling when you transcend joy. Thanks!

swatchen commented 2 years ago

Here a few a came up that I thought weren't terrible. Feel free to iterate off these, I'm not interested in THIS bounty.

Meta-Miracle Goodflection Point Euflection Point The Hyper-Gooding or just The Gooding

EagerOptions commented 2 years ago

Fantastrophe

gitcoinbot commented 2 years ago

Issue Status: 1. Open 2. Started 3. Submitted 4. Done

The funding of 0.15 ETH (271.25 USD @ $1808.33/ETH) attached to this issue has been approved & issued to @davidmanheim.