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Anonymous Sun Mar 17 05:25:49 2019 No.12776867 [Reply] [Original]

I am sick and tired of it. Why must they use so diificult words? I am currently reading Lolita in English and half of the words are unknown to me! Wtf? I am getting tired using the doctionary every 19 seconds! What can i do?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 05:28:31 2019 No.12776870 >>12776867 i came here to laugh at you

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 05:29:15 2019 No.12776871 Read more, write down the words you don't know, revisit them often, learn them. Eventually you will know every word. You will word the word.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 05:29:43 2019 No.12776872 Give me five words you needed to look up. Don't feel ashamed.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 05:33:38 2019 No.12776883 >>12776872 Potentate,dell,redolent,midges, jocularity,fastidious, etc.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 05:34:54 2019 No.12776885 >>12776867 Do you know what "context" means?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 05:35:03 2019 No.12776886 >>12776872 Pellucid Lachrymose Fusillade Ebullient Edify

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 05:37:53 2019 No.12776888 >>12776885 not op, but I like reading aloud and it hurts not knowing how to pronounce a word

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 05:40:40 2019 No.12776894 >>12776885 Yeah i know Tyrone, but I want to fully grasp all the little elements. I am not a dumb barbarian to just be ok with the context you dumb shit.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 05:41:39 2019 No.12776897 >>12776883 >>12776886 Don't know most of those but I've read Lolita twice without trouble. Usually I don't look up a word unless it seems important or it appears more than once.

Anonymous Sun Mar 17 05:44:54 2019 No.12776904

>>12776897
Nakobov is pretentious thats all. Its like a peasant who just learned new words.The same with Joyce. I can literally not comprehend the first page in A potrait of the artist.

Salinger on the other hand is based as fuck. Simple vocabulary. Simple narrative, simple prose. Made for us, by us.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 05:48:24 2019 No.12776919 >>12776894 >half of the words are unknown >i dont want context >i dont want doctionary take meaning from space or stop reading lolita, fucking asshole. what advice did you expect to get?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 05:54:38 2019 No.12776933 >>12776867 Don't read The Terror, Dan Simmons is obsessed with little details and will waste hundred of pages describing boats.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 05:56:30 2019 No.12776938 >>12776904 Portrait is actually my favorite book. The first section is just various memories from early childhood. The moocow part is a story his father told him. I don't think he uses any obscure words there.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 05:59:15 2019 No.12776941 >>12776938 Moocow is extremely obscure. Never heard of it. What about tuckoo?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 06:00:38 2019 No.12776946 >>12776941 moocow = cow tuckoo = joyce/stephen's nickname

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 06:00:42 2019 No.12776948 File: 145 KB, 399x454, yunanpepe.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12776919 How can one possibly know all the words in Lolita?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 06:01:49 2019 No.12776953 >>12776946 Are any other difficult words in Potrait?

Anonymous Sun Mar 17 06:08:22 2019 No.12776972
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>>12776919
>take meaning from space
imagine falling this hard for that meme taught to grade children in exercises superfluously worded to give out the meaning. If you can tell what a word means by context clues, pro-tip, the author isn't using the word correctly. Either get a dictionary or just accept you don't know it. Don't be a pseud that invents a meaning based on what you think is being said. This applies to every book.

Anonymous Sun Mar 17 07:00:39 2019 No.12777164

>>12776886
>>12776883

I think my classmates were taught this level of vocabulary around age 12-14. If you're learning English as a second language, I'd say you're about as fluent as an 8-10 year old.

If English is your native language, I'm very sorry.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 07:04:21 2019 No.12777179 >>12777164 go to a manual worker in Boston and ask him "What does pellucid/lachrymose/redolent/fastidious mean?" You are going to get beaten up.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 07:05:55 2019 No.12777183 >>12776883 Dude l'm french and i know what potentate and fastidious means comme on

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 07:06:07 2019 No.12777186 >>12776953 Not a lot

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 07:06:51 2019 No.12777192 >>12777179 I'm from Boston, you little bitch, are you even Irish? Most Americans are stupid. Of course they don't remember the vocabulary. I'm saying that that's about when they're taught it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 07:08:14 2019 No.12777199 >>12777192 Do you even speak Irish, James, or are you a literal cuckold and bow to your English masters?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 07:09:26 2019 No.12777204 >>12777183 potentate is literally a french word. Also what made you think i am an anglo myself? My native language is Greek.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 07:12:12 2019 No.12777214 stop being so bothered about dictionary definitions. good writers allow you to deduce an uncommon word's meaning via what's around it, maintaining the flow of the text (which is key). this is definitely the case with nabokov

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 07:12:26 2019 No.12777216 >>12777192 Ok, Will Hunting.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 07:13:52 2019 No.12777225 >>12777183 You know the romanic one. What a surprise! Get your IQ checked, frog!

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 07:18:07 2019 No.12777239 File: 1.17 MB, 2322x1024, radipan_11.07.18.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12776883 >>12776886 >tfw I knew every single one of those words, and I'm a lowly ESL

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 07:20:33 2019 No.12777245 >>12776885 Brainlet. See here>>12776972

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 07:21:29 2019 No.12777249 >>12777239 whats your native language?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 07:24:36 2019 No.12777258 >>12777179 Ok, then you're as proficient as a manual worker from Boston, with none of his practical skills or heterosexuality.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 07:24:38 2019 No.12777259 File: 61 KB, 525x618, 15494011552460.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12776972 >If you can tell what a word means by context clues, pro-tip, the author isn't using the word correctly.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 07:25:40 2019 No.12777264 >>12777258 english is my 2nd language though

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 07:27:09 2019 No.12777271 >>12776867 You can always count on Nabokov for a fancy prose style.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 07:30:56 2019 No.12777283 >>12777249 Romanian.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 07:32:30 2019 No.12777288 File: 11 KB, 231x218, 1537042475273.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12777283 xaaxaxaxaxaaxxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaaxaxaaxxaxaaxxaaaaxaaxaaxaxaxaxaaxaaaaxaaaxaaxa

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 07:34:40 2019 No.12777294 >>12777264 Nabokov's too.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 07:36:17 2019 No.12777300 >>12777294 yeah but i never studied in an English speaking country like Nabokov, moron.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 07:52:57 2019 No.12777342 >>12777300 Δε μου λες. So are you going to do anything about it other than whine and seethe on τετραδίαυλο;

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 07:53:32 2019 No.12777343 >>12777342 αντε γαμησου

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 08:03:25 2019 No.12777375 File: 59 KB, 655x527, 02f.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12777245 You cited a retarded post

Anonymous Sun Mar 17 13:05:51 2019 No.12778697
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>ask something related to vocabulary on /lit/
>get assaulted by passive-aggressive trannies who need to flex their big brain
>they will then cry about how masculine fraterniy is non-existent

Peak clownworld experience

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 13:08:19 2019 No.12778709 >>12778697 >y-you're just a tranny! lol cope

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 13:09:44 2019 No.12778716 >>12778697 This. I'm an English speaker only, don't know most of the above words, and don't need to pretend like I learnt them as a child to flex to imageboard strangers. It's cringe to even see people doing so.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 13:10:55 2019 No.12778720 >>12778697 kek

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 13:11:05 2019 No.12778722 >>12778697 >Finnegans Wake

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 17 13:13:19 2019 No.12778739 >>12778716 This is how this board cope. Many people do the same shit.

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