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3 comments:
I was packing up old notebooks earlier this year and found one filled with pages and pages of words that I intended to look up. A lot of them seemed to come from reading Norman Mailer during my first year of college. I must have looked up the words because I "know" them now and find they are part of my regular vocabulary.
Btw, have you seen that new edition of Ginsberg's early journals? It contains a long 3pp list of "sexual vocubulary" compiled when he was about 18 years old.
And I can't resist this word from reading Dreiser's Sister Carrie this morning: hornswoggle.
i've been reading, for work, about how vocabulary is learned and retained, as well as how it carries meaning in prose. it's delightfully mysterious but, i guess, frustrating too.
last night while watching hockey an announcer used the word donnybrook -- that's a nice one. hornswoggle seems pretty similar to it.
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