I memorized the entire dictionary in two years after only working

did you memorise the entire dictionary?
do you have any pets?
do you work part time or full time?

>>9242327
yup
nope
part time

>>9242315
page 343 22nd row right column?

>>9242352
Dollar or dollar day. Could even be dollar diplomacy

>>9242346
did you have technology?
how many years did it take?

>>9242357
I'm pretty sure you just made that up

>>9242358
I mean i had a fridge but no phone, no internet access

Two years of 5 hour dedications to reading and copying it down

Probably should say the pic related is not the one I memorized. Was something like the Webster collegiate seventh

>>9242315
How?

>>9242357
Very impressive!

Which is the best dictionary?

>>9242402
Probably pic related, even though I didn't memorize it it has more than what I memorized. Mine was older

what are some of your favorite obscure words?
like, really obscure

>>9242381
this

>>9242315
>with no pets
was that necessary? I have a pet python, he's pretty self sufficient but brings me much joy.

You should maybe get a pet.

>>9242381
>>9242429
Every day I sat down and read and wrote 10 pages for 5 hours.
>>9242420
There are lots of words that I feel like were created for the sake of saying it exists. Off the top of my head:
Gabelle: a salt tax
Goombah: older friend
quire: dozen sheets of paper or something weird

>>9242447
I just dont want the time to feed them and stuff. Could also be expensive

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>>9242377
>memorized entire dictionary
>doesn't know what dictionary it was

>>9242412
Why didn't you buy a good one?

>>9242480
how well have you incorporated these new words into your vocabulary? Has this exercise made you a significantly better orator and writer w/r/t the time investment? Or have the gains been primarily in the reading department?

>>9242517
i said earlier im fairly certain it was websters collegiate 7th edition

>>9242519
just what my gram gave me before she died. Figured id just use it

>>9242622
Extremely. It's given me more linguistic awareness and tools to use in my writing. A lot of it was scientific vocab, but I like the exotic things I learned along my way and I find it easy to incorporate in my poetry without being pretentious

Why did it take you two years?
And what did you write?

>>9242750
it just happened to be that that was when I had truly memorized it

I ended up with a 2400 page rambling absolutely pretentious and exotic stack of pages. It's beautiful and I hope someone is autistic enough to publish it. It uses every idiom I know, every word, mixed with latin vocab and spanish ramblings.

Why you did that?

>>9243031
to say i could
to expand my vocabulary

Can you write a sentence with correct usage of at least five very uncommon words?

>>9243054
"Junket to uncial, blithersome collocations of gerfalcons"

>>9242315
Did you get anything out of it? Your posts don't really reflect a sophisticated vocabulary or deeper insight into English (sorry for being dickish, just being honest)

>>9243074
I did. I'm not really using it only because so much is for highly specific things. It would just make me sound pretentious, especially on this board. I'll usually try to slip a neat word or two in everyday convos though

Alright quick, what's the 37834 word in the dictionary no peaking.

>>9243166
that I have no clue. I do it by page and column.

Ok let's assume this is true. Why is nobody asking this, OP why did you do it? How did you muster the will of doing it?

>>9242785
That is great, i kinda sorta believe you now.

>>9243183
Ok, I didn't saw >>9243035 but still, 2 years 5 hours a day? Were you depresed, going through mental issues. I mean people have a really hard in general doing this kind of hardwork. If this is true, you really have great dedication.

>>9243212
I was going through some doubts as a writer and I wanted to set a challenge for myself. It was more of a patience and meditation method I wanted to go through.

Would probably recommend if you're serious about doing it. Don't let it abash your social web though. I would just come home and get to work and then have 3 or 4 hours to read/learn something

>>9243244
More precisely, what was your method of studying?

>>9243254
well for remembering the book I used the "jounrey method"
I'd imagine myself walking through life and a page would be associated with something. Repeat till done

I think writing my incoherent mess was something that entwined the words with my own, too

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>>9242315
I think I saw an article somewhere with the same story.

>>9242377
seven up?

>>9242315
Define exhorbant

>>9242480
>quire: dozen sheets of paper or something weird
wut?
quire is not an obscure word
it is still widely used in publishing/printing today

>>9244783
price too high

>>9244804
I'd literally only seen that word in the dictionary

>>9244871
you're thinking of exorbitant