/lit/ - Literature

Kindle is for idiots that don't have the dictionary memorized.

I have the dictionary AND the thesaurus memorized. OP is a fag.

I am not a native speaker and it sucks balls having to look a word every minute while reading, say, Blood Meridian.

It does though. I have a PR600, all I have to do is double tap on a word and it brings it up.

>>521397

Blood Meridian must suck so much arse to read in English if you aren't a native English speaker. English is my first language and even I find it dense as fuck.

lol sony book reader, enjoy your glare faggots

Depends on the Sony Reader in question, OP.

The Pocket? No. The Touch and Daily Edition? Yes they do. And they work a fuckload better than the Kindle one.

When I need to consult a dictionary, it's for words that can't be found in your average default dictionary that comes built into devices.

>>521452

Sure thing. Like Ghurthinlying, I can't find that word in any dictionary.

>>521459

Because it's not really a word?

>>521472

Yeah it is, you read it, that makes it a word. Random gibberish is technically words, however, they have no meaning.

>>521478

You just take philosophy 101?

>>521484

Nope.

>>521478

No. Words have to have a meaning or concept attached before they are words, you stupid faggot.

>>521490

Alright then.

Ghurthinlying - A small, ugly child that is mentally challenged.

Now it is a word.

>>521511
now go and jerk off, wanker.

>>521511
>Word (n.)
>a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning.

>that functions as a principal carrier of meaning.

Your word is not a carrier of meaning, seeing as you made the word up yourself and have to explain its meaning to any and all people who encounter.

>>521511

>>521517

But it has a meaning.

So...how long is that battery life on those things?

>>521812
look up private language argument

and even if you do not buy that, and i do not fully endorse its implied metaphysics either, it is clear that language as a human function is active in the social setting. your capacity to invent words is rather useless without their being accepted by others.