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3773709 No.3773709 [Reply] [Original]

>How to read a book by Mortimer J. Adler
>uses words like "harangue" and "hortatory"
Fucking hell /lit/, I have to stop every page to look up 1 or 2 words. Is there a better way going about learning the meaning of words and remembering them?

>> No.3773714

Extrapolate from context like any toddler does when learning to speak.

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>Is there a better way going about learning the meaning of words and remembering them?

Yes, there's a very easy way:

1.) Buy a Kindle
2.) Get said books in .mobi and place them on Kindle
3.) When you encounter a word you don't understand, just place the cursor on it and a definition will show up, giving you an instant OED definition.

http://cnettv.cnet.com/2001-1_53-31727.html

Why people bother with paper books (and, worse, paper dictionaries) anymore is a total mystery.

>> No.3773751

How can you not know those words?

>> No.3773759

>>3773734
Ah, when I mean look up I did not mean via a paper dictionary, I merely type the word and double click it, my Firefox extension gives me the definition. Perhaps there is something similar for PDF files I can use for a reader?

>>3773751
I am not a native speaker.

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>>3773751

> lel u stupid pleb, 'm patrician
> le literary elite
> duh sumrfags r coming. get off muy c/lit/ you filthy casual

>> No.3775199 [DELETED] 

b-bump

>> No.3776364

b-bump

>> No.3776390

>>3774078
And here we can see the reddit fallacy in action folks.

>> No.3776407

>>3776390
Haha, the reddit fallacy. I've spent hardly any time on reddit and know exactly what you mean by that. I hope that catches on, if it hasn't already, because it's really common on here.

>> No.3776451

>>3773759
> I merely type the word and double click it, my Firefox extension gives me the definition.

I have this on Chrome.
It's gotten to the point where if reading a paperback and I want a definition I mentally "double click" a word in the hopes the definition shows up.
So goddamn disappointing when it doesn't,,,,,

>> No.3776482

>>3773709
Or you should accept yourself that a higher register vocabulary is to be acquired only through multiple encounters with aforesaid words. Just read frequently and automatically you will comprehend them at some point.
There is a reason why reading is one of the hardest skills to be learned when small.

Also:
>>3773734
^ this

I also am not a native speaker, and before I got my e-reader (Kobo Glo) the quickest way to read books for me was to install a merriam-webster app on my mobile phone and look up the words instead of using a paper dictionary.
Now I simply quickly click on a word and it, most of the time, gives me a sound definition.
It still forces you to look words up, but the how much it interrupts reading is reduced greatly.