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Anonymous Mon Apr 16 10:36:57 2018 No.11010323 [Reply] [Original]

>author uses a word you don't know
>look it up
>it doesn't even exist

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 10:40:10 2018 No.11010335 >>11010323 What word prompted this? It happens but only rarely (unless it's something obviously factitious, like Rosa's "nothusband" in Absolom, Absolom!, etc)

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 10:43:45 2018 No.11010347 Wiktionary will almost always have something, even if it's just a reference to the same work you're reading.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 10:44:47 2018 No.11010351 File: 31 KB, 351x395, 1521618830334.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >"iVamos, amigos!" he said as they rode off into the friscilating dusklight.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 10:51:10 2018 No.11010377 File: 47 KB, 500x500, 1503470939385.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11010323 >Reading Madame Bovary in French >Read a word I don't know >Look it up in an English-French dictionary >Don't know what it means in English either

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 12:05:32 2018 No.11010614 That's why you read Gene Wolfe

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 12:08:54 2018 No.11010630 Keeeeeeeerrrrrooooooouaaaaac

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 12:37:55 2018 No.11010749 >>11010377 absolute pleb

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 12:52:55 2018 No.11010812 File: 77 KB, 645x729, image.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >it's not in the dictionary or wikipedia = it's not a word

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 13:24:58 2018 No.11010942 >translator doesn't translate obscure French/Latin terms

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 13:27:09 2018 No.11010954 >>11010377 tony... easy on the frosted flakes...

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 13:30:16 2018 No.11010970 >dictionary defines a word with a variant of itself This ain't a thesaurus, Webster. You hack.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 13:35:23 2018 No.11011000 >>11010351 kek

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 13:46:50 2018 No.11011055 >>11010954 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHA

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 13:52:21 2018 No.11011081 File: 55 KB, 702x800, flat,800x800,075,f.u1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >this thread

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 14:35:22 2018 No.11011280 File: 52 KB, 346x360, befuddledS.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11010323 >Not making up words as needed Are you literally retarded? Who doesn't do this?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 14:39:14 2018 No.11011299 >>11010323 With all the heart, and with that tongue which speaks The same in all, an holocaust I made To God, befitting the new grace vouchsaf'd. OY VEY DANTE

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 14:41:02 2018 No.11011305 >>11010812 cromulent picture

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 14:43:03 2018 No.11011315 >>11010942 >he doesn't know French and Latin psued

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 15:08:22 2018 No.11011457 >>11011280 Some tobilyte most likely

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 15:10:34 2018 No.11011470 >>11011280 Gregory Berrycone

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 15:11:01 2018 No.11011474 >>11010377 Every time I see madame bovary I read it in Carmela Soprano's voice. Fuck that stupid subplot.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 15:14:01 2018 No.11011481 >>11010954 underrated

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 16:58:08 2018 No.11011993 >>11010954 grrreat post bitch

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 16:59:56 2018 No.11011999 >>11010954 kek

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 17:05:32 2018 No.11012025 >>11011470 Fuck off knobhead

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 17:27:18 2018 No.11012152 >>11010954 gud poast

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 18:18:02 2018 No.11012417 >>11010954 pretty good not cringe at all desu

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 23:55:34 2018 No.11013830 >>11010954 ahhhh the memories.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 23:59:11 2018 No.11013842 >>11010335 Happens all the time in Cormac McCarthy’s books

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 16 23:59:55 2018 No.11013846 File: 431 KB, 720x480, 1514998010206.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11010323 >not understanding the word via context clues alone

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 17 00:01:47 2018 No.11013853 >>11010351 Entertaining post. Keep it up!

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 17 00:02:05 2018 No.11013854 >>11010954 I genuinely laughed out loud

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 17 00:03:43 2018 No.11013860 >>11010335 Nothusband and the notlanguage of notpeople, like this, cannot be overrated.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 17 00:15:00 2018 No.11013909 >>11010323 Joyce in a nutshell

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 17 00:16:46 2018 No.11013915 >>11010954 this has no right to be as funny as it is

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 17 00:19:52 2018 No.11013932 >>11010323 Sounds like somebody just got kertwanged.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 17 00:24:03 2018 No.11013953 >>11010954 You are a genius, wordsmith.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 17 00:27:10 2018 No.11013973 >>11011993 this is the only good reply that autistic post gj anon

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 17 00:46:39 2018 No.11014056 >author can speak multiple languages and adds in multiple foreign words on every page with no regard to if the reader is multilingual.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 17 00:56:39 2018 No.11014095 >author uses a word you don't know >look it up >"ah I see" >forget it almost immediately

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 17 01:01:56 2018 No.11014109 >>11010812 It's not really a word if people don't use it, and if it isn't found with a simple search then people likely don't use it nor ever used it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 17 01:03:31 2018 No.11014113 >>11010335 McCarthy invents probably two dozen words in Blood Meridian. "Scurvid" is probably my favorite

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 17 01:06:51 2018 No.11014123 >>11010954 lmao

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 17 01:09:46 2018 No.11014131 >>11013842 I particularly like, "eitherhanded."

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 17 01:10:46 2018 No.11014133 >>11010323 >>11014113 McCarthy invented the term autism >"He rose and stood tottering in that cold autistic dark with his arms outheld for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings."

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 17 01:12:12 2018 No.11014137 >>11014133 anon autism was first used in 1938

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 17 01:12:18 2018 No.11014139 File: 166 KB, 720x731, 6362490047527833981058856848_shakespeare.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >author uses a word that doesn't exist >becomes part of language

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 17 01:18:21 2018 No.11014157 >>11010323 academia in a nutshell

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 17 01:26:57 2018 No.11014187 File: 231 KB, 940x635, thirlwell_1-042315.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11010323 >mfw its the first word of the book which is entirely in half gibberish half whatever the fuck

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 17 01:29:02 2018 No.11014195 >>11010323 >it doesn't even exist Well, it exists now, doesn't it?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 17 01:30:08 2018 No.11014200 >>11010351 >misspelling friscalating

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 17 01:34:25 2018 No.11014213 >>11014187 >he doesn't know what the word "once" means

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 17 01:37:47 2018 No.11014217 Am I allowed to use words that don't exist in my book?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 17 01:58:51 2018 No.11014289 >>11010323 Infinite Jest? Hopscotch? Alice in Wonderland? What was it, OP?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 17 02:03:21 2018 No.11014307 >>11013842 >>11014113 Or phrases like "at no remove".

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 17 02:04:49 2018 No.11014309 >>11014139 All he did was Anglicize French and Latin words.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 17 02:07:31 2018 No.11014316 File: 11 KB, 500x185, 1522532923261.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11010954 good one

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 17 02:39:10 2018 No.11014389 >>11010323 >It does exist and he invented it.

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