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Anonymous Fri Nov 4 12:33:02 2016 No.8691993 [Reply] [Original]

Post the last word you saw and had to look up

>perspicacity

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 12:35:28 2016 No.8692002 Perspicacity

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 12:36:30 2016 No.8692004 veridical

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 12:52:00 2016 No.8692052 cosh

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 12:54:11 2016 No.8692063 Perspicacity

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 12:56:24 2016 No.8692067 >>8692002 Heuristic

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 12:58:33 2016 No.8692077 I never look anything up, i just gradually acquire vague meanings from context.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 12:59:18 2016 No.8692080 דּוֹרֵ֣שׁ

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 13:02:01 2016 No.8692092 >>8691993 Perspicacity

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 13:03:09 2016 No.8692094 >>8692077 my man

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 13:04:45 2016 No.8692098 Fefnicute

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 13:07:03 2016 No.8692109 preclude

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 13:08:01 2016 No.8692111 Gay

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 13:08:24 2016 No.8692112 Resplendent.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 13:09:30 2016 No.8692115 File: 70 KB, 623x641, thatword.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8692077 I just want to be sure a word means what I think it means, to avoid potential awkward situations in the future.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 13:15:04 2016 No.8692133 >>8692112 seriously nigger?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 13:24:41 2016 No.8692167 coterie

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 13:26:01 2016 No.8692174 >>8692115 But I enjoy being the subject of Montoyaposting.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 13:32:17 2016 No.8692201 Parsimonious and perspicacity

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 13:37:46 2016 No.8692232 File: 48 KB, 535x577, stop.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8692133 saltant refulgence

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 13:40:36 2016 No.8692247 >>8692077 a true patrician.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 13:51:54 2016 No.8692305 >>8691993 hieratic.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 14:57:17 2016 No.8692550 Panacea

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 14:59:01 2016 No.8692558 File: 9 KB, 480x360, arrival-language.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] something work-related

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 15:00:53 2016 No.8692568 >>8691993 Obfuscation

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 15:01:26 2016 No.8692571 Stolid

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 15:02:33 2016 No.8692575 eucatastrophe

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 15:02:44 2016 No.8692577 >>8691993 Ah-erlebnis

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 15:05:06 2016 No.8692586 >>8691993 kehkeşan

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 15:26:36 2016 No.8692638 >>8691993 Foot. We have two why do we need a word for one of them?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 16:21:52 2016 No.8692831 >>8692077 mostly this desu The last thing I absolutely needed to know to understand a sentence was 'hoi polloi'

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 16:28:07 2016 No.8692849 funny, because I had to look up 'perspicacious' 2 days ago I knew what it meant but had a slip of the mind

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 16:32:58 2016 No.8692863 >>8692638 Amputees, mainly.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 16:35:06 2016 No.8692868 >>8692831 >>8692077 >>8692094 >>8692247 The only people itt that have a chance of writing anything of worth, or having an original thought during their lifetimes.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 16:38:05 2016 No.8692874 Reprobate

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 16:42:33 2016 No.8692887 Privet I keep looking this one up

Anonymous Fri Nov 4 16:42:58 2016 No.8692890

>>8692077
>'What I did, I went in there and presented with anger at the grief-therapist. I accused the grief-therapist of actually inhibiting my attempt to process my grief, by refusing to validate my absence of feelings. I told him I'd told him the truth already. I used foul language and slang. I said I didn't give a damn if he was an abundantly credentialed authority figure or not. I called him a shithead. I asked him what the cock-shitting fuck he wanted from me. My overall demeanor was paroxysmic.'

What does paroxysmic mean?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 16:51:02 2016 No.8692914 >>8691993 Perspicacity.

Anonymous Fri Nov 4 16:58:00 2016 No.8692947

>>8692890
it carries implications of psychosis and paradoxes to me as i skimread this. i'm getting violent, unexplainable vibes. i guess i'll pick it up through reading it other times in other contexts and my brain will join up the dots

for the time being there is plenty of extra data there to describe the narrator's attitude, which will surely help build a mental picture of what the word means

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 17:02:14 2016 No.8692970 >>8692887 пpивeт блядь

Anonymous Fri Nov 4 17:14:26 2016 No.8693017

>>8692947
Maybe it doesn't come through well enough with the limited context given, but the use of "paroxysmic" is supposed to be a joke. (Or maybe it's just not a funny one.) The word means exactly what you gleaned: a sudden attack or violent expression of a particular emotion or activity. The joke is he uses the whole paragraph illustrating exactly what a paroxysm is, and throws in an extra sentence just so he could use this word. I'm imagining the author laughing at the thought of his readers looking up what the word means only to learn nothing new about the scene or character - just the definition of this obscure word.

This is from Infinite Jest btw

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 17:15:29 2016 No.8693020 >>8692890 a paroxysm is a violent fit

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 17:17:13 2016 No.8693029 >>8692887 Privet I just had to look that up too. I'll probably need to look up most of these words.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 17:18:35 2016 No.8693039 >>8692077 A lot of words probably don't mean what you think they mean.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 17:21:12 2016 No.8693051 >>8693039 i'm sure that you're right this is how i live

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 17:24:42 2016 No.8693058 >>8693039 On a pseud terrified of being called out on their status would care

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 17:25:14 2016 No.8693064 >>8692868 Yes, looking up information is for plebs :^)

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 17:26:48 2016 No.8693068 >>8691993 Caveat. I kind of knew what it meant but wanted to be 100% sure before I used it and there's really no reason not to do a quick search to confirm.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 17:31:34 2016 No.8693084 Macehualli

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 17:42:10 2016 No.8693115 Does anyone else have a random useless word they looked up once and still remember the defintion of? For me it's 'diaphanous'.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 17:45:23 2016 No.8693132 >>8693115 after reading too many lovecraft stories i ended up looking cyclopean and realising it wasn't about giant buildings presumably built by or in the style of cylopes but was rather just about irregular masonry

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 18:01:19 2016 No.8693197 File: 122 KB, 960x731, 1435910974141.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >When an anglo posts a Latin-based word ITT

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 18:09:35 2016 No.8693221 >materiel thought it was a misspelling

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 18:11:50 2016 No.8693234 >>8692868 How many layers of autism are you on right now

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 18:14:53 2016 No.8693239 penisolate

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 18:24:40 2016 No.8693276 >>8692970 >пpивeт блядь Why should I? >>8693029 I'm just so ignorant when it comes to vegetation, tree names and so forth. Also doesn't help that English isn't my first language but I had never encountered this word in my language either

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 18:33:32 2016 No.8693300 Once had to look up the meaning of life.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 18:42:29 2016 No.8693334 >>8692098 +upboat2, classistisi and linguist

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 18:53:28 2016 No.8693368 sere gnof kecks houlet

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 19:00:45 2016 No.8693392 >>8692115 when I was younger, I never looked up meanings - just sourced them from context. I then ended up with lots of incorrect meanings, like 'aloof' meaning 'relaxed, goofy'

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 4 19:03:34 2016 No.8693397 cruor

Anonymous Fri Nov 4 19:05:24 2016 No.8693404

>>8693392
aloof is in lots of contexts associated with those. so you might be catching the right "incorrect" images even if a dictionary who doesn't much care about new contexts and reappropriations of words, and associations of meanings, tells you otherwise

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 5 05:12:49 2016 No.8694865 >>8693132 Why was Lovecraft such a pretentious hipster? All those tonguetwisters just to say there's a spooky light up ahead. I had no idea the English language even had this damn many words just to describe simple luminescence.

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