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OutlawGene - Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:38 am
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my vocab sucks i mean i understand words but i cant figure out a definition for em it doesnt make sense but thats how it is. I hate dictionary's for some reason i can't figure out what meaning i should memorize for the word :-/ so i fail with learning with dictionaries. ok so i will donate to anyone who replies to this topic with definitions of words with the word included. dont take it out of the dictionary ill know and i wont donate. please tell me your vocabulary skills.U need to use the most commonnly used meaning for the word and no other meaning. explain ironic to me please using examples if you can and reason why the example is ironic.

Bak - Fri Oct 05, 2007 11:28 am
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My friend Alanis wrote a song about irony:

An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
It's a death row pardon two minutes too late
Isn't it ironic ... don't you think

It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought ... it figures

Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids good-bye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down he thought
'Well isn't this nice...'
And isn't it ironic ... don't you think

Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything's okay and everything's going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when
You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up
In your face

It's a traffic jam when you're already late
It's a no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
It's meeting the man of my dreams
And then meeting his beautiful wife
And isn't it ironic... don't you think
A little too ironic... and yeah I really do think...

Also:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bZT622ew_dM

Dr Brain - Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:12 pm
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Yeah, it's ironic that nothing in that song is ironic...

Bak - Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:22 pm
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Mine GO BOOM - Fri Oct 05, 2007 3:51 pm
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If you are honestly having problems, the best way to learn new words is in context. Read books. Lots of books. When you hit a word you don't know, try and figure out what it may mean based upon how it is used in the context of the story. If unsure, then go look in a dictionary and see how it applies in your case.

Dr Brain - Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:26 pm
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I've found that reading science fiction helps a lot with vocabulary. I'm also rather partial to the genre (there's a word for you) in general.

CypherJF - Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:12 pm
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To keep our vocab up at work, we subscribe to Word of the Day mailing lists. It's fun because we'll try and use it to bash one another. Especially when the word was schadenfreude that one really got us going.

CypherJF - Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:12 pm
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CypherJF wrote:

To keep our vocab up at work, we subscribe to Word of the Day mailing lists. It's fun because we'll try and use it to joust one another. Especially when the word was schadenfreude that one really got us going.

OutlawGene - Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:48 pm
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word of the day mailing list yeah i'll look it up. thx.

CypherJF - Fri Oct 05, 2007 6:50 pm
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Well thats interesting... some how I double posted with a quote of myself.

Muskrat - Sat Oct 06, 2007 3:29 pm
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Learn a foreign language that relates to your own, that will help.

L.C. - Sat Oct 06, 2007 6:48 pm
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Read some old classical books. Try some books written in old english from the late 900s all the way to the 1400s; medieval books are a good pick.

If you have a computer with internet handy, try setting dictionary.com as your homepage. That way when you want to know what a word is, just open your browser and type in the word in the search box and hit enter. :]

Cyan~Fire - Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:09 pm
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No, don't read classical books, I think L.C.'s just trying to be a jerk.

But I think MGB's advice to just read more in general is the best so far.

OutlawGene - Sun Oct 07, 2007 4:45 pm
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I think that I would have the same effect if i didn't type donations. anyway i was not going to donate money im gonna donate all my continuum luv :

The Apache - Mon Oct 08, 2007 1:51 pm
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ugh don't be so soppy about it, just read more books. no, not magazines, proper books.

Sass - Tue Oct 09, 2007 10:51 am
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Today's Word:

Craptacular (crap tack you ler) [adj]: 1. Used to describe your ordinary work day. 2. Often used by CypherJF to describe life at his workplace. 3. General consensus status of working a crappy job.

OutlawGene - Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:05 am
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so should i write down the definition + meaning that i learn from looking up a word that I don't know from a book and memorize it? Because i'll have to get off mandatory medicine someday in order to memorize meh.

Cyan~Fire - Thu Oct 11, 2007 1:06 pm
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You don't really need to try to memorize it. You just read, look up the words you don't know, and after a while you'll learn them naturally.

Sercit - Fri Oct 12, 2007 1:18 pm
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download wordweb. It'll help, but read also. READ MOAR. And not Subspace, or Yahoo chat, some of those people are just about as illiterate as a group of monkeys.

L.C. - Sat Oct 13, 2007 1:25 am
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Quote:

I think L.C.'s just trying to be a jerk.

[whisper]No I wasn't. I was being serious.

[/whisper]