I kind of want to motorboat complicated words now.
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> My teachers:
> Never use a word to describe itself.
Me looking up a word like rufloggy: "The state of being rufflogged".
"Of, or relating to, rufflog"
Fun fact: the first english dictionary was full of that
???
Why do I think of an ostrich when I see this?
Was it not a Giraffe?
I honestly don't remember
It's definitely either an ostrich or giraffe, one of those long neck fuckers
A turtle
I was on a train from a small commuter town outside the city back into Moscow where I lived at the time when a dictionary salesman came up the aisle. It was pretty common for people to sell snacks and stuff on the commuter rail, but dictionaries were new to me. I did buy it, and it was surprising how much it improved my language skills. Before I bought it, I learned words by looking at their English equivalents, but that's not quite right -- you say скука in Russian when you would say boredom in English, but they don't quite mean the same thing -- and sometimes to understand a definition I'd have to go through 3-4 others along the way. Obviously, you have to be pretty far along your language learning journey before you start, but I highly recommend it.
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