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[-] Nipplecreek@lemm.ee 62 points 11 months ago

I can't name very many people that have finished the whole dictionary

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 18 points 11 months ago

The book gave me a roller coaster of emotions, I never knew what was coming next!

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago

You joke but I read the dictionary as a kid (and not for the naughty words); helped me expand my vocabulary and gave me knowledge of stuff I wouldn't have known about at that age.

[-] Saigonauticon@voltage.vn 1 points 11 months ago

Hey, I did that as a kid too! My school was a glorified daycare, it was often the only reading material available, and it was somewhat more interesting than staring at the clock all day.

I think kids might. I remember reading it front to back when I was first really getting into literacy, hoping to get adults' seemingly godlike intuition for spelling words. Still like to open it up from time to time to peruse a letter

[-] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 5 points 11 months ago

hoping to get adults' seemingly godlike intuition for spelling words.

Dit you manege to sucseed dough?

Haha kind of, but I still need to have little games for some words, like how the word "parallel" has two parallel "ll" next to eachother.

I'm almost certain my spelling has got worse since autocorrect/suggest became a fixture of my daily life.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 4 points 11 months ago

Spoiler: the killer, it's Zytugur!

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

When it defined Zyzzyva, I cried butterfly tears.

this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2023
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