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Has anyone learned or developed any strategies for rapid vocabulary acquisition?
I assume the problem must have been studied and strategies surely exist, but I have not been able to find anything useful. All I have found are resources oriented towards English learners (who by definition possess a small vocabulary) and Scrabble learners (which are heavily slanted towards words with z's and q's and so forth which score highly in the game).
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Typically by speaking to other humans and using words.
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Ok well fuck you.
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>>9353870
I can't speak to any prevailing strategies besides the standard "read a lot", but I can offer up a loose regimen that was used by a writing group/collective that I was part of back in college.
We used 750words, which is an online journal tool that had some helpful metrics built into the user interface. As the name would imply, you are obliged to write at least 750 words each day. Every week, we would each identify the five most common words (excluding common particles, [in]definite articles, etc.) that we had written and use whatever study methods we wanted (typically flashcards) to replace those words in our vocabulary with three synonyms. If those words later reappeared on our weekly list, we would have to learn another three new synonyms. I found it to be very effective.
tl;dr if you want to expand your vocabulary, don't just read; you have to write, and then pay attention to the words you're using when you do it.
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>mfw ever since /fitlit/, /lit/'s collective IQ has dropped by 20 points
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I love Asuka!
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BRAAAAAAAPP
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>>9353719
What book are you most proud of reading?
I read mostly long, dense novels - the kind a lot of people give up on. I feel like I grew a lot as a person after reading each one
The following ones I feel were personal accomplishments - completed goals...
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace - This was the first book that I took as a personal challenge, and it remains perhaps my favorite novel of all time. It's not as difficult as some of the others I've read, but I felt like I was thrown into the fire at first, as I hadn't read anything like it before. It teaches you how to read it, though, so I will always appreciated it for how it helped me improve as a reader.
Gravity's Rainbow/Mason & Dixon/Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon - all of these are difficult reads, but insanely rewarding. All three hold spots in my personal top 10. Thomas Pynchon is, in my opinion, the greatest living American author. I will be rereading each of these for the rest of my life. Unbelievably good.
The Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson - More long than difficult. Took me about 8 months to finish it. I felt both accomplished and sad when I finally put this one down. My favorite fantasy series of all time, and it's not even close.
The Dying Grass/Fathers and Crows/Europe Central by William T. Vollmann - Again, difficult but very rewarding. The Royal Family took a long time to read as well, but it wasn't as dense as these. The best historical writer of all time. More nonfiction than fiction, but he does take his liberties. I highly recommend Vollmann if you like the others authors I have mentioned.
The Recognitions by William Gaddis - Okay, this book kicked my ass at first, but by the end it wasn't so bad. Exceedingly gorgeous prose and well-drawn characters. One of the greatest novels I have ever read and another that I felt "trained" me to be a better reader.
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Ulysses though I never really did read Oxen of the Sun to be desu
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>proud of consuming something
I ate a whole Christmas turkey once - the kind a lot of people give up on after 2 pieces. Feel like i grew a lot as a person (in girth mostly).
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On war - Clausewitz
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ITT: Rank your favorite authors works.
1. Brothers Karamazov
2. Demons
3. Notes from the Underground
4. Crime and Punishment
5. The Idiot
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1. Looking for Alaska
2. Paper Towns
3. The fault in our stars
4. An abundance of Katherines
5. The Cheerios Theory
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The Hawkline Monster
In Watermelon Sugar
The Abortion: An Historical Romance
Trout Fishing In America
Revenge of the Lawn
Sombrero Fallout
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On the Road
The Dharma Bums
Big Sur
The Subterranean
Visions of Cody
The Town and the City
Desolation Angels
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How do you get out of the existential crisis?
I've read stuff that can't be unread
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>>9353560
What have you read op?
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You find God
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>>9353560
Learn to lie to yourself like everyone else
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How often do you feel retarded?
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>>9353549
If I had to estimate I would say about 90 minutes per day, with a couple days a week of uninterrupted intellectual confidence.
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>>9353557
You're almost like me, except that when I enter the whirlpool of self-loathing I can get lost in that void for hours.
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24/7.
You have 10 seconds to improve this sentence.
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>>9353484
A mildly attractive celebrity snubbed an autistic attention whore.
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>>9353484
Oscar winner Emma Stone has turned down the 17-year-old hopeful who, in his parody of the hit La La Land song Another Day of Sun, invited her to be his prom date.
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Hopeful male: lady shoes; male mourns
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just finished the general prologue, so far having a load of fun with the language.
is there any specific order in which to read the tales?
what's your favourite tale and why?
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My favourites are the Knight's Tale, for the story, and the Miller's Tale, for the banter.
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My favourites are the Knight's Tale, for the story, and the Miller's Tale, for the banter.
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Admit it, you like Stephen King.
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I want this hand when i'm going to nofap :)
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desu i feel pretty emasculated knowing normies read these 800 page horror novels as i plod through a 200 page novella
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Long Walk is fun, Stand was okay I guess, everything else is kind of trash
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>tfw ironically a Maoist
Should I kms or go post-ironic, because it's far too late to stop
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All that is left is to become non-ironically Maoist.
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Replacing Confucius with yourself seems kind of pointless, it just become a new tradition to follow. I dunno.
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>>9353205
> all that is left
nice pun, buddy
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You are my information prostitute.
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Today, the richest companies in the world and the richest men (yes men, not women) are STEMfags. In olden times, writers and artists had patrons for their art. As we enter the second guilded age, people like you should get a clue and realize that if you don't write for people like me you are going to eat beans and noodles.
Write content for me, not for trans womxn, blakpipo, or latinxs. You aren't in school anymore. Get paid, get laid.
There is way too much SJW writing being produced. It's not lucrative. It's just what your secular seminary taught you to write. I don't care about your Marxist exegesis on the latest leftist whackadoodle pulp book. Write books like Superintelligence if you want to make money, be famous, and be happier.
I love what you do. We love what you do. Most of the words I write are interpreted by unconscious machines. I miss writing to people, and having other people write to me. My compiler said more to me today than anyone else.
Make us feel less alone, or go hungry.
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smd
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i did write for you. white male empowerment fantasies where the women are there to serve coffee and cake and other men exist to be ground beneath your boot.
you didn't fucking buy it, so i'm going to write shit that *I* like. cyberpunk furry futa incest porn. and you're never going to read it, not even out of curiosity, because it's gonna be distributed through channels you don't know about.
have fun with that.
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Write for miserable people who hate their jobs in order to make big wads of cash for the purpose of sex.
I have a life to live, not to waste!
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Why does /lit/ never recommend poetry?
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>>9353150
>lit is mostly monolingual
>uncultured plebs
>poetry is shit in translation
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It's shit for fags.
Also /lit/ never stops cumming over Rimbaud, Neruda and Leopardi.
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>>9353154
>poetry is shit in translation
/lit/ never heard of Oscar Wild, Shakespeare, Byron, Whitman, Poe...
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im depressed lonely and on the verge of suicide what book should i read>
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no longer human
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Flanimals
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Ignore the Deepak Chopra quote on the cover. Book is good but why Chopra man?
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>The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which low-ability individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability as much higher than it really is. Psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger attributed this bias to a metacognitive incapacity, on the part of those with low ability, to recognize their ineptitude and evaluate their competence accurately.
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>>9352785
is this seriously your first time hearing about this? underage banned
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>>9352788
You shouldn't assume things, anon.
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This really takes me back to AP psych junior year, which was almost a decade ago. You make a nigga feel old OP.
Literature functions as a self-contained, self-referential aesthetic object. All that is required to understand a text is intrinsic to the text itself.
Bringing extrinsic elements into a reading of the text - such as the intent of the author or the response of the reader - is fallacious. Such extrinsic elements may be worthy of study in their own right, as adjuncts to history or psychology, but they have nothing whatsoever to do with the study of literature.
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ya but what if the author is a total fag like OP
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response of the reader is intrinsic to the study of literature. words are dead without eyeballs.
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>>9352772
>texts have to be read therefore my feelings are relevant to what a text says
No.