>tfw don't understand the difference between former and latter
first and last
>>7768582
former is former and latter is latter
Are you literally brain dead?
Me too. I never cared to look it up so I just use the context to know what is being talked about
>>7768582
>former - formerly
>latter - later
>tfw can't tell the time on a non-digital clock
Is this a feels thread?
>tfw you will never be a good esl writer like nabokov
>tfw I can't read or write and my mum have read and post on 4chan for me
>>7769151
>esl
?
>>7769152
im legally blind and have a vietnamese girl which is in love with me but I dont care for read and write instead of me
>reading book
>word comes up and you don't know
>think it doesn't matter and read on
>word keeps coming up again and again
>have to make up your own imaginary definition
>>7769157
English Second Language.
>tfw you didn't have tutors to teach you english from a young age
>tfw you used to read books backwards because you never learned how to read properly until the 8th grade
I'm reading IJ and there are lots of words used that I don't know and I don't bother/care to look up because I believe DFW uses them exclusively to be pretentious
![dictionary1[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/SWv70VC.jpg "dictionary1[1].jpg")
>>7769169
allow me to recommend a book you may not have heard of
>>7769171
Conrad is a more proper author to pin 'ESL' on. Nabokov... not so much.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/
>>7768582
In your sentence, the former is former and the latter is latter
>tfw you lose your virginity and feel angry about it and now you're trapped in reality.
>>7769169
This fucking guy
>>7769878
wow bro, sick reference. fresh new maymay!
>>7769878
wrong thread senpai
>>7769169
get the dictionary app on ur smartphone breh its free and doesn't need internet connection to work
>>7769881
What? This just happened to me.
>>7768582
Former = the one who forms, demiurg
Latter = from italian latte, milk. milker, succubus, lower demon who feeds on male energy
>>7768582
Her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency....
>>7769743
Even if he was taught several languages including English from childhood, he still spoke with a thick Russian accent, so he counts.
>>7769945
Not funny but good effort. Have a (you).
>>7769169
I though I was the only one
>>7769743
english was conrad's third language wasn't it
