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[Guest poof]

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[little_girl_lost]

i enjoy learning new vocabulary words so I can add them to my speech to feel better about myself using them to people who don't know what they mean

[TICcore]

No. I get excited when a see a hot girl.

 

[bnmjy]

Only sometimes.

[Bouvre]

Not really, unless it's a word that feels more fitting than any other word I previously used to describe the same feeling or situation.

Sometimes certain words, like verisimilitude, feel like I'm applying baggage to a sentence, but I'm honestly pleased with my usage of verisimilitude here

because this is the first time I've felt like I've had a reason to use that word.

 

I do get really excited when language is used in a way that's surprising/emotionally exact though, like in Grace Paley's short work titled Wants:

 

"He had had a habit throughout the twenty-seven years of making a narrow remark which, like a plumber’s snake, could work its way through the ear down the throat, half-way to my heart. He would then disappear, leaving me choking with equipment."

 

I never re-read that and don't feel astonished by it.

[Kudasai]

I can't read

[Mini_ghost420]

I already know all words. their context when being used however I do not

[Bouvre]

I already know all words. their context when being used however I do not

 

That seems like a lot of time spent reading multiple dictionaries over and over,

updating every year when new words are added in light of popular use by the language's speakers.

 

Unless you're a professional Scrabble player. Then it would be strangely feasible.

[Mini_ghost420]

I just randomly stuff info in my head and sort it out later.

[André Toulon]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

See how excited I was.

 

And I instantly try to shoehorn it into conversation.

 

But seriously, I was extremely excited when I first heard the word vexatious.......It described so many things that I overused it until I hate that word now and it's my own fucking fault.

[Bouvre]

I just randomly stuff info in my head and sort it out later.

Yeah, but that seems like a lot of restuffing info into your head, too.

Also, all words? What about defunct words that you might still find in old work but still have definitions?

[Mini_ghost420]

it can be anything really words or ideas or whatever. I love them old words. I sometimes try to use them still