/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17883210]

anyone else here autistically look up every single word you don't know in a book?

[Anonymous No.17883240]

>>17883210
yes it took me four minutes to read this post

[Anonymous No.17883242]

Yes. Worst part about it, I forget what that word means, so I look it up ad infinitum. I make a vocabulary list from time to time, but always forget about it.

[Anonymous No.17883282]

I don't do it autistically, i just do it sinve I'm serious about my engagement with litterature.

[Anonymous No.17883630]

>>17883210
>he doesn't instinctively understand new words
ngmi

[Anonymous No.17883654]

>>17883210
yes. While reading the bible I had to look up ‘anon’ like twenty times during the first few books. Now I know it. Same with other words.

[Anonymous No.17883742]

yes, the prince is taking me longer than a normal book its length should because I have dungo brain and my version's translation isn't adapted

[Anonymous No.17883927]

I can tell when a word is a useless, rare synonym that the author is only using to appear smart/legitimate, so I don't bother looking it up. And for the other words it's easy to understand them, every use refines their meaning and instructs you better than any dictionary.

[Anonymous No.17884017]

I loop up the word then write the definition in the margin so I don't have to look it up again if I re-read the book. (Yes, even library books).

Also helps with retention.

[Anonymous No.17884092]

>>17883210
sage because that isn't autism, but how you grow your vocabulary and understand a book. fuck lol random! people like OP. the extent to which autism is spread in the population is massively exaggerated. you def have low self esteem though

[Anonymous No.17884125]

>>17883210
Yes, glad I'm not the only one

[Anonymous No.17884147]

>>17884092
The unjustified bitterness of your post indicates in exceedingly small penis and a feminizing hormonal imbalance.

[Anonymous No.17884151]

>>17883210
I prefer the Oxford dictionary

[Anonymous No.17885234]

>>17883210
Yes, is nice to learn a new word everyday. But please use them in moderation or you'll end up looking like a retard.

[Anonymous No.17885243]

>>17883210
I write down every word I do not know the exact definition to look up afterwards, I only look up a word I do not know if the sentence does not make sense without the precise meaning

[Anonymous No.17885252]

>>17884092
Autism is a symptom of not being breastfed while a baby

[Anonymous No.17885306]

>>17883210
i write them down on a piece of scrap paper and look them up once I'm done reading unless absolutely necessary. stopping to look up words every few minutes is too distracting for me.

if there's a word i really want to get more familiar with (like specific philosophical terms), I'll write a little synopsis of it in a journal i keep for all my reading notes.

[Anonymous No.17885569]

>>17885243
are you me?

[Anonymous No.17885586]

>>17885569
Do you want me to be (with) you?

[Anonymous No.17885591]

What would Marlboro ice cream taste like?

[Anonymous No.17885610]

>>17885591
Like ice cream made out of marlboro

[Anonymous No.17885744]

I use an app on my phone and bookmark it for later then when I finish a book I copy all the bookmarks into a notebook.

[GODCOCK No.17885763]

yep...
I really enjoy learning about the etymology in any case. I have a another for german, but i stopped reading a while back; maybe someday when i get to lingua latina per illustrata i'll do a latin one too

[Anonymous No.17886030]

>>17883210
fuck me, I looked up paroxysm for at least twenty times and i still don't remember what it means

[Anonymous No.17886054]

>>17886030
A sudden worsening of a condition.
t. saw it in crime and punishment

[Anonymous No.17886082]

>>17883210
If I am fairly confident that I understand it and the sentence through context I just jot it down and the page number so I can look it up later and revisit. If I am unsure I will look it up. If the book has shown to use a good number of words which I do not know I will just look it up immediately even if I am fairly confident I understood the context since I will likely be looking up other words and I do not want to risk a cascade failure.

[Anonymous No.17886172]

No. I impose my own superior meaning on the text if I don't understand the words. My misinterpretations are often better than the authors original intention.

[Anonymous No.17886715]

>>17883210
Not anymore, I realize that every age had its higher culture meme words that are, in the great scheme of things, irrelevants. The only reason to learn aged meme words is if you want to give your writings a certain feel of an era, if you try to include aged meme words into your vocabulary you will sound like a sperg, its not worth learning them.

[Anonymous No.17886830]

>>17883210
How is that autistic? Also, E-readers make it very easy to poke the word and get the definition.

[Anonymous No.17886846]

>>17886172
someone break out the chad meme, yowza!

[Anonymous No.17886858]

>>17886715
>t, I like my bubble and have no intentions of leaving it

[Anonymous No.17887103]

Nah, I tried to read Dune but I gave up due to the ammount of words I didn't know, I couldn't really tell if they were silly made up sci-fi gobbledygook or just obscure real words

[Anonymous No.17887413]

Nah. For maximum effect I read books in a language I don't understand.

[Anonymous No.17887433]

>>17883210
That’s easy though. What is difficult to read and understand is when authors use constant symbolism and metaphors to get the simplest point across. Bro, you don’t need to describe a house as a face to get your point across.

[Anonymous No.17887443]

>>17887433
How stupid are you?

[Anonymous No.17887463]

>>17884092

[Anonymous No.17887551]

The fact OP thinks this very basic, fundamental part of reading requires some preemptive display of self-awareness is amazing to me

hahaha isn't that autistic of me guys, trying to understand the book I'm reading haha Jesus Christ

[Anonymous No.17887571]

>>17887551
Cosigned

[Anonymous No.17887619]

>>17885763
You seem like a nice guy. Not trolling btw. I recognize vs code. What’s the other program?

[Anonymous No.17887645]

>>17887463
288

[Anonymous No.17887666]

I've been doing this with Lovecraft, and I no longer need to look up most of the words in any book.

[Anonymous No.17887690]

>>17885252
Come on, man, don't do me like that
Mama was old, didn't have milk
I've never been diagnosed, but combined with parents who had me at 50+ and no milk, as well as late debut into society and limited social interaction, there's a pretty good chance I'm autistic. I did get a 130 on an IQ test once, and I'm really good at memorization and learning, maybe it's the good kind of 'tism.

[Anonymous No.17887696]

>>17885591
cancer

[GODCOCK No.17888333]

>>17887619
Editor is actually sublime text, the other is qpdfview, showing the compiled latex doc; LHS is the bottom-most part of it, with yet to be processed words
I used wiktionary for 98% of cases
Thanks for being an honest, good-faith dude.

[Anonymous No.17888347]

>>17887645
Yup, you are autistic.

[Anonymous No.17889807]

I usually infer the meaning from the context but if the word shows up multiple times all look it up just to be sure