/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17683378]

>mfw vocabulary gains from reading 19th century lit

[Anonymous No.17683396]

>>17683378
>mfw I absorbed too many archaic and passé words people can barely understand me and call me a pretentious faggot
What level of /lit/ is this?

[Anonymous No.17683397]

>>17683378
Yes, it's quite good.

19th century /lit/ and Plato and Aristotle give the true intelligence gains.

[Anonymous No.17683401]

>>17683396
>>17683397
I wanna use these new words in everyday conversation but I don't want people to think I'm a pseud faggot. Woe is me

[Anonymous No.17683568]

>>17683401
If you use them in a natural way, you can just give a three word explanation quickly after it without giving them time to respond. Do it in a sympathetic way, so you're explaining it to them if they don't know what it means, and if they already do then they'll say so. Just don't do it too much because then you will become a pseud faggot.

[Anonymous No.17683669]

> His presence is for the nonce ignored, and as they disport in their error he wrings his wits to hit upon a means of speaking with them, so to initiate the business of conversion.
try late 17thC

[Anonymous No.17683688]

>mfw incorporating snurt into my vocabulary

[Anonymous No.17683780]

>>17683401
if you are british and have a professorial aura about you, you can do it. the later is the important part. but its hard to cultivate and make it seem natural.

[Anonymous No.17684056]

>>17683396
Its midwit level. Patrician status is when you can be vulgar with the plebs while being able to easily trounce some upshot manager type with a BA as needed

[Anonymous No.17684147]

>>17683396
>>17683401
>Learn Russian
>Go to Russia, or online forums of therebefore mentioned language
>Speak proto-slavic pre 17th century lingua (u learn it automatically by learning Russki yazik)
>Try to be as ironic as possible in every single statement/expression u make while using it > always come up as a soulful Gandalf that has clever wholesome wisdom in every letter of his speech
>yfw

[Anonymous No.17684168]

>>17683378
>>17683669
what books are the best examples of their respective century? what books give the very best gains?

[Anonymous No.17684169]

>>17684056
ew, that’s probably even worse if done poorly, that could easily come off as poof slumbing then larping as an underdog hero

[Anonymous No.17684170]

>>17684147
kek'd

[Anonymous No.17684219]

>>17684169
>ew

what the fuck?

[Anonymous No.17684238]

>be me
>learning Latin
>reading Vergil's ecologues
>come across the word frondosus
>see that it came into English as frondose
>making gains in both Latin and English eo tempore
>mfw

[Anonymous No.17684241]

>>17683378
Post some examples or else you're lying

Last word I learned was unwonted

[Anonymous No.17684248]

>>17684241
Sundry

[Anonymous No.17684256]

>>17684248
>This mf has never read George Gascoigne
smdh famiglia

[Anonymous No.17684259]

>>17684256
Abstruse

[Anonymous No.17685472]

>>17683669
Heh, "nonce".

[Anonymous No.17685488]

>tfw too autistic to be laconic

Why must I ramble at people about ww1 or music theory or clothing materials and functions until their eyes gloss over?

[Anonymous No.17685502]

>>17683669
He faced his interlocutor with a visage of dread upon his continence, and he spoke no more.

[Anonymous No.17685577]

>>17684241
Obsequious

[Anonymous No.17685587]

>>17684056
Keyed
>>17684169
Locked

[Anonymous No.17686095]

>>17684238
Based

[Anonymous No.17686112]

>>17683378
Read Burton's Arabian Nights translation. He uses a lot of archaic language and he was from the 19th century

[Anonymous No.17686212]

>>17683396
>>>mfw I absorbed too many archaic and passé words people can barely understand me and call me a pretentious faggot
me too

[Anonymous No.17686227]

>>17683378
Today I learned the word "Niggardly" while reading Faust, how about you frens?

[Anonymous No.17686446]

>>17684241
interregnum from Moby Dick

[Anonymous No.17686483]

>>17683378
>mfw I'm bilingual but I've been reading so many English books I forget vocabulary from my native language or mix it up with English so I speak like a retard.

[Anonymous No.17687100]

>>17684241
lachrymose
>watched two anons ask about and look up the mean of "mirth" after i used it on /asp/ once

[Anonymous No.17687117]

>>17684056
Vulgarity and obscenity are not patrician behaviors. Unnecessary cussing isn't funny.

[Anonymous No.17687153]

I have to consciously limit my vocabulary when using Tinder.

[Anonymous No.17687166]

>>17684241
Comfit - a candy consisting of a nut coated in sugar.
Casement - a window set on a hinge so that it opens like a door.
Gird - encircle a person with a belt or band.
Paramour - a lover, especially the illicit partner of a married person.
Coulter - a vertical cutting blade fixed in front of a plowshare.
Haft - the handle of a knife
Jape - a practical joke.
Blear - make dim
Argufy - Argue, typically about something trivial.
Medlar - a small bushy tree of the rose family.

[Anonymous No.17687182]

>>17686227
I saw this post while browsing the second page and I simply could not be a fucking niggard about congratulating you on reading Faust. Congratulations fren.

[Anonymous No.17687196]

>>17687117
Cope

[Anonymous No.17687380]

covid

[Anonymous No.17687509]

>>17686483
This is a bastard. I want to learn a new language but I also want to continue leveling up my English, and I’m not sure there’s space in my brain for both

[Anonymous No.17688712]

>>17683378
Too bad it's of no modern use.

[Anonymous No.17688896]

>>17685488
Well, at least your neurotypical enough to notice their eyes gloss over kek. Could be worse, but if it was you wouldn't know.

[Anonymous No.17688921]

>>17686483
A few years ago I started semi-consciously ruining my English grammar in many constructions, eg. dropping articles and certain relative pronouns, reversing adjective/noun order. By semi-conscious I mean that I would write the phrase without thinking, then notice it was incorrect grammar in English, but not correct it because I preferred the way it sounded.

[Anonymous No.17688959]

>>17683378
Learning French has helped a lot for me. A lot of common words in French make you appear pretentious when used in English.

[Anonymous No.17690053]

>>17688959
was it hard to learn

[Anonymous No.17691426]

bump

[Anonymous No.17691536]

>>17683396
Gay penis

[Anonymous No.17692166]

>>17683688
sneed

[Anonymous No.17692292]

Mfw you can only use it in writing.

[Anonymous No.17692427]

>>17683378
it does become a problem when you find yourself using words in ways they haven't been commonly used since the victorian era

[Anonymous No.17692799]

>>17685488
Watch Drive.

[Anonymous No.17692818]

>>17683401
This but I never get to practice new words so I forget them. Like once a month I have to look up shit like adieu cause I'm smart enough not to say goodbye like someone that cannot grasp that talking like it's the 18th century is ridiculous tone-wise

[Anonymous No.17693021]

>>17683378
wait a second...

[Anonymous No.17693565]

>>17683378
>>17684056
this, midwit level is still where you learn all the words and the etymologies they come from, this 'learn a new word every day' attitude. patrician is when you can adapt your vocabulary, make up and quickly learn new neologisms, slang and jargon depending on the context without appearing pretentious. patrician level requires you to be able to adapt depending on circumstances, so it cant be reached by any autismos unable to read the room

[Anonymous No.17695039]

>>17693565
>>17687153
>>17684056
You guys are just describing code switching

[Anonymous No.17695093]

>see a word i don't know
>skip it and move on

[Anonymous No.17695110]

>>17695093
>doesn't check footnotes

[Anonymous No.17695142]

>>17695093
>see word I don't know
>infer its meaning from context
>use the word myself one day
>someone tells me i"m using it incorrectly
>smirk at their their prescriptivist naivety and explain that this is a new use of the word which a philistine might not be aware of
>onlookers marvel at my linguistic efflorescence
>calls are made, dictionaries changed, progress marches on

[Anonymous No.17695369]

>>17693021
fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you
GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD

[Anonymous No.17695403]

>>17695039
yeh, although id argue its being able to code switch without actually having to 'switch' anything in the way you speak, its talking the same you always talk and thinking the same way you always think but just using slightly different words and roots, if that makes sense.
Ive often heard people feel alienated from one/both of the systems if they have to code switch a lot, which seems to me like you havent actually made that system your own.

[Anonymous No.17695604]

>>17687166
confetti this dick in your mouth
basement
gird your loins
para amore paramore
ann cutter
shaft
jape an, okay this one is not so obvious
bleaken the fucking window
fact, factoid
medley

[Anonymous No.17695735]

>>17687117
Vulgarity has it's place. For example, when describing your mother's vagina I would be compelled to refer to it as her 'gash' and so on

[Anonymous No.17695941]

>>17693021
Delete this

[Anonymous No.17695965]

>>17693021
Huh

[Anonymous No.17696209]

tfw mastering English more than my native language by only reading books in English

[Anonymous No.17696342]

>>17684241
conclusion

[Anonymous No.17696451]

>>17684241
window
table
computer
uh
roof window