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Do you still regularly learn new words while reading novels ?
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Do you still regularly learn new words while reading novels ?
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>>8055492
No. I've reached the point where the words I do not know are the words that you only see in ironic purple prose contests, rather than actual books.
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>>8055492
Neigh--having triggitancended linguigglesticks wit de "Get-Up Finneggle" quilled under Jimbob o'1-I, Eye-sea icy pan-wordbirds underta craggyracks a' flatspeak.

>icepick relambationed
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>>8055503
Reply to this post with a word I probably don't know.
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>>8055782
Hebetude
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>>8055791
the state of being dull or ironic

bam easy try again
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>>8055782
dessicated
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>>8056513
It's more like languid. Don't think it has anything to do with irony.
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>>8056520
do you mean desiccated? and that's a pretty basic word.
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