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improving your vocabulary.... (pg. 5)
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| Orbax |
verbal diarrhea is logorrhea. Theres a word for it ;)
and its read read read. Classics and philosophical papers. scientific journals tend to try to be LESS wordy to get the point across, but old russian literature, old english...I think those are the ones to focus on. Classic greek is a little to lost in translation for me.
CS Lewis and Tolkiens papers and essays are also great...basically find really smart people who are TRYING to wax eloquent and you will learn cool phrases and terms. |
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| FallingMoon |
| I'm subscribed to the daily word from dictionary.com (word for today-cavil: to raise trivial objections; also, a trivial objection.) but what I usually do when writing or for self improving purposes is take the word I have in mind and use the thesaurus to look for another word in place of it, as there are so many that usually sound better or are just different than normal. I really hate using repeated words or simple vocabulary. |
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| igottaknow |
| quote: | Originally posted by Floorfiller
i like trying to improve reading comprehension and my vocabulary base, although it doesn't usually find it's way into normal conversation hehe |
Its indubitably apparent you're a dumbass. Try reading a book and while you're at it look up indubitably. Hope I've helped you increase your vocab. :p
| quote: | Originally posted by HardTranceProd
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cool a geography lesson :stongue: |
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| Sumit_A |
Unrelated, but related...
I seem to be losing my Vocab as I get deeper into music... :( |
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| *InVeRs3* |
I have a weak vocabulary. And I abhor LAs like English.
But I learn new words when I do English papers, I use a dictionary-thesaurus to assist. |
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| DJ RJT |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
PISS! :toothless |
COCK! BALLS! :p |
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| Aiwendil |
| SON OF A VONDRUKE! |
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| Renegade |
Hello Kaz. Your post was intriguing to me, but I wonder if you could just clarify a few things before I definitively decide to subscribe to your newsletter?
| quote: | Originally posted by Kaz
After bemusing the possible dynamics of the aforementioned literary work |
Your use of "bemusing" as a transitive verb without a direct object perplexes me. I can only presume that you meant "After bemusing myself with the possible dynamics of the aforementioned literary work", or else you were genuinely suggesting that you caused the "dynamics of the aforementioned literary work" to become bemused themselves somehow. Could you please clarify your intentions on this matter?
| quote: | | there is a possible conundrum between the civilities of modern progressive ideology and past marxo-realism. |
I think you meant "conflict between" or "conundrum with regards to". Also, what specific civilities of what specific aspects of what specific progressive ideology do you see as conflicting with "past marxo-realism"? Also, what do you mean by "past"? Are you referring to older, out-dated strains of the marxo-realism doctrine, or did you mean "post-marxo-realist"? Also, what is "marxo-realism"? Surely you meant "Marxist-realism"? And to what aspect of Marx's ideology, pray-tell, is the "realism" in reference to?
| quote: | | This fixates itself |
Upon or towards what?
| quote: | | by properly realigning the over-stated political asylums of post-regressive truism. |
Your lack of a determiner with regards to the singular object "truism" makes this sentence difficult to understand. Perhaps you meant to say "a post-regressive truism"? Or "post-regressive truisms"? Or "post-regressive truth"? Also, what is a "regressive truism" and what aspect of the truism in question gives you the indication that this "post-regressive truism" is a chronologically distinct successor to regular "regressive truisms"? Also, your indefinite use of the preposition "of" does not make it clear to me whether these "political asylums" pertain to "(a) post-regressive truism(s)" or consist of "(a) post-regressive truism(s)". I feel that your speedy clarification of this point may aid in my comprehension of your analysis here.
| quote: | | A parallel universe then exists between |
Literally "exists"? Literally "exists between"? How is it that this universe can run both "parallel" to and "between" the objects of your inquiry?
| quote: | | confounded pluralism |
Pluralism of what? What has caused this pluralistic theory to become "confounded"?
| quote: | | and unfounded singularities of cognition. |
The assumption is, then, that cognition can be deconstructed into distinct "singularities"? Is this a neo-Freudian interpretation, or are you approaching the issue from a more physical, neurological angle? Also, what is it that makes these "singularities of cognition" "unfounded"? Are they "unfounded" in the sense that the proponents of this theory have not adequately demonstrated the essential existence of these "singularities of cognition"? Or are these "singularities" themselves "unfounded" in the sense that they have no established ontical foundation within said cognition?
| quote: | | This then beckons the ponderance of man's own independence of separate dualities. |
"Ponderance" by whom and "beckon[ed]" by what? Your use of the pronoun "this" is rather ambiguous in this instance. Also, to what "dualities" of "man's" nature are you referring to and why are these dualities necessarily "separate" / "independent"?
| quote: | | A sort of presupposition, if you will. |
Which "presupposition"? A "presupposition" with regards to what?
| quote: | | To be or not to be, that is in essence all. |
"All" of what? Are you using the word "all" denote finality or to denote absolute inclusiveness? In either case, in what sense does the co-opted Shakespearian phrase "to be or not to be" constitute finality or absolute inclusiveness? Why is it, "in essense[,] all"?
Thank you in advance for your reponse to these queries. I eagerly await your next publication. |
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| Sunsnail |
| quote: | Originally posted by Renegade
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loser :p |
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| igottaknow |
| Watching a grammar hawk swoop down on an unsuspecting psuedo intellectual and tear him to pieces gives me pause. :nervous: |
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| Floorfiller |
| quote: | Originally posted by igottaknow
Watching a grammar hawk swoop down on an unsuspecting psuedo intellectual and tear him to pieces gives me pause. :nervous: |
hahaha...seriously. renegade is a smart mofo. i'm impressed... |
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