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20 pages in and already getting filtered.

Reading this as a non native english speaker what the fuck are some of these words even real words?

>WHAT THE FUCK IS A TEAMSTER?
>WHAT THE FUCK IS A BATBOARD?
>WHAT IS A FUCKING HACKAMORE? DUMBEST WORD I HAVE EVER SEEN.

>> No.20447752

Seethe cope and dilate. Should of been born English my little foreigner. Jokes on me though, I got filtered and I'm English

>> No.20449091

>>20447748
remember the location: it's a combination of colonial english, spanish and some influence by native american dialect. simply put, the further you are from the american-mexican border, the harder this book will be to read. it's a bilingual book.

>> No.20449096

>>20447748
>20 pages in and already getting filtered.
/lit/ in a nutshell

>> No.20448957

>>20447748
No one in America knows all those words either, just Google them lmao. He is purposely archaic. My eighty year old grandmother calls furniture by names I’ve never heard.

>> No.20448967

>>20447748
His uses words that were used at the time period the book is set. Are you retarded just look them up.

>> No.20448975

>>20447748
relax, i had to use a thesaurus when i read it
a teamster is still a word being used today though...its a member of a labor union

>> No.20449000
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20449000

I get filtered by every book I read

>> No.20450004

I live in Tucson AZ so I basedfaced when they stayed in Tucson for the night.

>> No.20450070

>>20447748
for me its when they start speaking mexican

>> No.20450074

>>20449091
A frontier book if you may.

>> No.20450374

Now that I know you amerimutts are getting filtered by these words too i feel much happier.

>> No.20450413

does your eReader not have a lookup and/or dictionary?

>> No.20450427

>>20447748
>Long johnson
What did Cormac mean by this?

>> No.20451193

>>20450374
op is just a retard honestly, cormeme does make up words tho

>> No.20451238

where should i start with cormac? i've seen the no country adaptation a lot already and know the book is mostly the same so preferably not there

>> No.20451277

>>20451238
The Road is an easy read. Or do Blood Meridian and Suttree back to back.

>> No.20451330

>>20447748
I’m 200 pages in at the part where the ex priest is talking about how he first met the judge and this is a really good book. I meant to download “the road” but I messed up and downloaded this instead and I don’t regret it. A lot of words I have to look up the definition to though.

>> No.20451336

>>20450004
Hey fellow Tucsonian! I’m posting this post from my job at GC services on Oracle! It’s hard to find a cheap house out here man.

>> No.20451664

>>20447752
>should OF been

>> No.20452401

>>20449000
Based trips

>> No.20453304

>>20451664
It's my Achilles heel, I'm so cringe

>> No.20453735

>>20453304
>IT'S