Veeky Forums Habits/Handwriting Thread

lets go. my new years thing is learning 10 words a day

>tfw you aren't even a native speaker and you know more than half of these words
Goddamn it feels good to speak a romance language

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Are you trapped in the 1800s?

I started keeping a journal da

that makes sense bc if i learned a new language i would try to read classics in it asap

I thought about doing this too but knowing how bad I think about myself when I'm honest it looks like it could be potentially damaging practice

What are you hoping to get from it if you don't mind me asking? Just honing your writing or?

a number of them i knew from context, but i would look up the definitions to make sure they actually stay in my vocabulary

I meant that half of the words in your list have romance roots. Stuff like
>celerity
>confabulate
>fugacious
>venal
>vitiate
Have an equivalent in romance languages and are actually used
>vitiate
>expiate

Welp IDK what the fuck did I do there but it looks like this is enough Veeky Forums for today

most of these i got from Infinite jest and ulysses. Pretty soon ill have to look in all different sorts of books to get enough words so im sure it'll balance out

It's a nice resolution to have, but these aren't words that you can use in everyday vernacular. People would look at you funny if you did.

What's the point? I'm not criticizing you, just wondering if you've got your marbles in the right bag.

A couple of these are just the most commonplace French synonyms of common English words. Being bilingual, it always makes me laugh when an author exhausts the English synonyms for a word and just pulls something out of a French-English dictionary rather than repeat himself.

1. to read the books that theyre in and know what they mean

2. memory exercise

3. can use many of them in writings

4. its fun, like having a collection of stamps, baseball cards, etc.

5. to get smarter, however illusory that hope is

The few there that I do occasionally see in non-pretentious writing are:

tawdry (take a drink every time a blogger uses this)
winsome (literature is full of "winsome smiles")
torpid
usurious
felicitous

lol if you don't know a word just look it up

i don't have my books with me rn so these arent that representative of what the list will become.

Also i think a good writer would be able to use obscure/fancy words without looking arrogant

ik lol i do that

as long as im looking for words every day, i can take them from more difficult books i havent read, and i'll know them ahead of time

and then the books are more fun to read

Make sure you memorize the definitions and practice with them.

Just writing ten new words in a book each day won't do you any good.

I use vocabulary.com because it has flash cards to practice with and will automatically teach you new words as you go.

Yep. i read the definition from a couple sources and i only move to the next one once i know how to use it in a sentence

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where might I find a comprehensive-ish list of unpretentious english words without romance roots?

that p word means nothing at this point. it makes me so mad

Look up anglish

>dentifrice
You didn't know motherfucking toothpaste?

i guess toothpaste tubes say that in europe? its not seen in America

Pepe looks strangly handsome...