If you Could choose one book as a mandatory read for high schoolers, what book would you choose?
Of Mice and Men I think. Reading it then and reading it now is kinda interesting on how my views on it has changed over the years
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@PhilDeep my dad used to use big words, and when we asked what they meant, he'd make us good look them up in his BIG ASS archaic dictionary that was so freaking HUGE, it had its own piece of furniture to sit on.
It was written in such an old style of english usage, youde have to look up a second word to decipher the explanation of the word you were looking up.
Half an hour later U'd end up with five fingers tabbing differnt words .....just to get one flipping definition.馃檮
I think he was a sadist馃槄
It was written in such an old style of english usage, youde have to look up a second word to decipher the explanation of the word you were looking up.
Half an hour later U'd end up with five fingers tabbing differnt words .....just to get one flipping definition.馃檮
I think he was a sadist馃槄
@OogieBoogie My Grandfather hated big words, he thought they were very prerentious and un needed. Mind you, he was a member of Mensa when it was still an honorable society, held four patents, was a computer programmer starting in its infancy, an accomplished electronics engineer, an award winning residential architect, and had numerous trade paper articles published in all of those fields, his father also owned and published two pre depression newspapers in Wyoming.
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@NativePortlander1970 i kinda agree. I think using too many big words is pretentious also .
Language is for communication. If i say a word someone doenst understand, i rephrase it.
My dad was also a pretty clever guy, he was an engineer, a builder, he built many ingenious little gadgets and machines.
But he also had a chip on his shoulder. Which is a shame.
The big.words ususally got used in debates or arguments, and looking back, it was a way for him to 'win' - tp prove his superiority.
Information and knowledge shouldnt be a competition, it should be shared.
Language is for communication. If i say a word someone doenst understand, i rephrase it.
My dad was also a pretty clever guy, he was an engineer, a builder, he built many ingenious little gadgets and machines.
But he also had a chip on his shoulder. Which is a shame.
The big.words ususally got used in debates or arguments, and looking back, it was a way for him to 'win' - tp prove his superiority.
Information and knowledge shouldnt be a competition, it should be shared.
@OogieBoogie My Grandfather was the opposite, he wasn't afraid to lose a debate when he knew he was outmatched, and he loved to teach others what he loved, which included photography and baking.
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@NativePortlander1970 that sounds like a wonderful environment to grow up in.
@OogieBoogie It was, sadly my mother took my older brothers and myself away from it for a number of years, 5.5 for my oldest brother, 7 for my other one, and 8 for me, from ten to eighteen.
