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Topics => General Board => Topic started by: LadyVirginia on October 27, 2011, 03:04:44 PM
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What does it mean to have a good vocabulary? I'm really wondering that today.
My daughter used the word accost in a sentence today with two co-workers. Neither knew what the word meant.
Granted I'm not using it everyday but it's not an unusual word by any means. Or is it?
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What does it mean to have a good vocabulary? I'm really wondering that today.
My daughter used the word accost in a sentence today with two co-workers. Neither knew what the word meant.
Granted I'm not using it everyday but it's not an unusual word by any means. Or is it?
Just my personal perception, but no, it's not an unusual word. Anyone with a fundamental understanding of the language who is in any way well-read should have run across this word in context at some point.
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For example,
"I am constantly being accosted by idiot liberals who think that I earn too much."
Mark V. Hurd CEO Hewlett-Packard
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If they don't use that word on Dancing wid da Stars I guess it ain't that important . . .
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What does it mean to have a good vocabulary? I'm really wondering that today.
My daughter used the word accost in a sentence today with two co-workers. Neither knew what the word meant.
Granted I'm not using it everyday but it's not an unusual word by any means. Or is it?
Not to me, it's not unusual. Besides, it's often included in "news" reports.
I used the word "incongruous" in conversation with my future SIL one time and she had no clue.
I just performed some hasty searching and the consensus seems to be between 50K and 60K words known -- not always used -- in the average high school graduate's vocabulary. I suspect that is outdated. The issue of "obsolete" words was raised, which struck me as ironic; a population that is ignorant of much of the language will use less and less words, rendering many of them "obsolete".
One of the reasons for claiming the SATs are/were culturally biased is vocabulary, in that "urban" children would have no knowledge or experience with, say, a sloop and so couldn't be expected to know the word. As IDP mentioned, that's where reading comes in.
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Hell I even know dat wun and my Hinglish suchs.
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Hell I even know dat wun and my Hinglish suchs.
I'm congruent with that!
::hysterical::
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"Accost" doesn't necessarily mean something negative . I've seen it used , albeit in very dated literature , to mean "called to" as in ; "I was accosted in front of the bookstore yesterday by two friends who had some very welcome news ."
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What does it mean to have a good vocabulary? I'm really wondering that today.
My daughter used the word accost in a sentence today with two co-workers. Neither knew what the word meant.
Granted I'm not using it everyday but it's not an unusual word by any means. Or is it?
I don't know how a person could possibly use a word in a sentence and not know what the hell it means ... unless , through ignorance , they are miss-using the word , thinking it means something else .
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What does it mean to have a good vocabulary? I'm really wondering that today.
My daughter used the word accost in a sentence today with two co-workers. Neither knew what the word meant.
Granted I'm not using it everyday but it's not an unusual word by any means. Or is it?
I don't know how a person could possibly use a word in a sentence and not know what the hell it means ... unless , through ignorance , they are miss-using the word , thinking it means something else .
I think you misunderstand, SH; LV's daughter used the word and knew what it meant. Her TWO co-workers didn't.
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Okay ... That makes more cents .
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Okay ... That makes more cents .
I knew it would once it was explained that weigh.
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Okay ... That makes more cents .
I knew it would once it was explained that weigh.
Pan , I knew I could count on ewe .
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You guys should here yourselves
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You guys should here yourselves
I sea what you mean .
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Okay ... That makes more cents .
I knew it would once it was explained that weigh.
Pan , I knew I could count on ewe .
Well, when your write, yore write.
And wright.
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Okay ... That makes more cents .
I knew it would once it was explained that weigh.
Pan , I knew I could count on ewe .
Well, when your write, yore write.
And wright.
If ewe say sew !
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Eye dew. ;D
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::facepalm::
Ufda!
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Eye dew. ;D
Should eye rite that down two ? ::eyes::
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They're, they're people. You hour going two far four me 2 enjoy the post. Weather ewe mean two or not, ewe have. Way two much, A Lot.
By, bye ( buy?) four now.
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Hell I even know dat wun and my Hinglish suchs.
I heared you use dat word yesterday in the supermarket. JF say: How mucha dat ting accost?
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I heared you use dat word yesterday in the supermarket. JF say: How mucha dat ting accost?
::hysterical::
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I heared you use dat word yesterday in the supermarket. JF say: How mucha dat ting accost?
::hysterical::
double ::hysterical::
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Gouda won, BAS!
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Hell I even know dat wun and my Hinglish suchs.
I heared you use dat word yesterday in the supermarket. JF say: How mucha dat ting accost?
Y you not say ello to me in pubic cause is ashamed to be see wid me?
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This reads like a bad skit by jeff Foxworthy
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This reads like a bad skit by jeff Foxworthy
Then somebody would be using things like,dat gummit.
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Quote from: Predator Don on Today at 08:19:49 PM
This reads like a bad skit by jeff Foxworthy
Then somebody would be using things like,dat gummit.
I think you mean "dag nabbit"
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This reads like a bad skit by jeff Foxworthy
That's "reeds" !
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This reads like a bad skit by jeff Foxworthy
That's "reeds" !
Sorry, The Evelyn Woodhead sped reddin course gits thangs miximup at tymes.