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Is it wierd to read and study dictionary

david_kenndavid_kenn Posts: 539
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Its one of my main hobbies, I read it and write it down on words belonging to different grammar and ready them regularly to help it stay in my memory. One of my main purpose is to help me give several different choice of words for my aim to have an administrative job. Is this unusual hobby?
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    ShrikeShrike Posts: 16,609
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    There's more to forming a coherant sentance than the words - grammar is important too.:)
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    tealadytealady Posts: 26,267
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    Have you got to 'W' in the dictionary yet?
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    RhumbatuggerRhumbatugger Posts: 85,713
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    The Thesaurus is far more fun.

    Or an Etymological dictionary.
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    RobinOfLoxleyRobinOfLoxley Posts: 27,040
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    david_kenn wrote: »
    Its one of my main hobbies, I read it and write it down on words belonging to different grammar and ready them regularly to help it stay in my memory. One of my main purpose is to help me give several different choice of words for my aim to have an administrative job. Is this unusual hobby?

    It's very weird. You should be on the Bibliophile Offenders Register
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    CaptainObvious_CaptainObvious_ Posts: 3,881
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    I used to 'read' the dictionary on my phone (never had that function on a phone before) every night before sleeping (well, rather, to help me sleep) and got to 'c' before I got my kindle and became obsessed with that instead :blush:
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 94
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    david_kenn wrote: »
    Its one of my main hobbies, I read it and write it down on words belonging to different grammar and ready them regularly to help it stay in my memory. One of my main purpose is to help me give several different choice of words for my aim to have an administrative job. Is this unusual hobby?

    Not at all. Please accept my most enthusiastic contrafibularities.
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    Seth1Seth1 Posts: 676
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    Good idea. Very few skills involved in admin. I think anyone can do it as long as you look as though your head is buried in something. I'm easily distracted however
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    droogiefretdroogiefret Posts: 24,117
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    Rhumbatugger wrote: »
    The Thesaurus is far more fun.

    Or an Etymological dictionary.

    I'd have said enjoyable ... convivial even ;-)
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    Toby LaRhoneToby LaRhone Posts: 12,916
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    Shrike wrote: »
    There's more to forming a coherant sentance than the words - grammar is important too.:)
    Please confirm that's irony.
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    NX-74205NX-74205 Posts: 4,691
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    Left alone to my own devices, I'd plough Susie Dent so hard to plant my seed that she'd think Jethro Tull himself had been reborn.
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    vosnevosne Posts: 14,131
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    NX-74205 wrote: »
    Left alone to my own devices, I'd plough Susie Dent so hard to plant my seed that she'd think Jethro Tull himself had been reborn.

    In many ways that is both one of the worst posts I've ever read on here...and the best. A mean feat. Have some *clap* on me :)
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    RobinOfLoxleyRobinOfLoxley Posts: 27,040
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    NX-74205 wrote: »
    Left alone to my own devices, I'd plough Susie Dent so hard to plant my seed that she'd think Jethro Tull himself had been reborn.

    Here's some photos. Go and have a wank you feckin idiot.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 11,313
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    Sausage!
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    Welsh-ladWelsh-lad Posts: 51,925
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    I love studying the dictionary and the thesaurus.... also ordnance survey maps.

    These are all loo-time reading for me :)
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    RhumbatuggerRhumbatugger Posts: 85,713
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    droogiefret wrote: »
    I'd have said enjoyable ... convivial even ;-)

    Amusing, appalling, affronting, allusive, tittilating and often enlightening, and, of course, marvellous for scrabble.;-)
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    RobinOfLoxleyRobinOfLoxley Posts: 27,040
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    Welsh-lad wrote: »
    I love studying the dictionary and the thesaurus.... also ordnance survey maps.

    These are all loo-time reading for me :)

    Too weird
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    Welsh-ladWelsh-lad Posts: 51,925
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    RobinOfLoxley wrote: »
    Too weird

    Oh good :)
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    Toby LaRhoneToby LaRhone Posts: 12,916
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    We have an OP who reads a dictionary but can't spell "weird" followed by a poster who just can't spell.
    I'm missing something.
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    RhumbatuggerRhumbatugger Posts: 85,713
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    Welsh-lad wrote: »
    Oh good :)

    Don't get too smug. I think it's bloody ordinary, for a bloke like.:D
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 11,313
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    I totes read the nu dictionary, it was amazeballs. YOLO
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    RobinOfLoxleyRobinOfLoxley Posts: 27,040
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    Can anyone read the phonetic pronunciations eg ˈdɪkʃ(ə)n(ə)ri ?

    That one is 'easy'. I find many are incomprehensible.
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    Flat MattFlat Matt Posts: 7,023
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    NX-74205 wrote: »
    Left alone to my own devices, I'd plough Susie Dent so hard to plant my seed that she'd think Jethro Tull himself had been reborn.

    Not if I got there first you wouldn't!
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    vosnevosne Posts: 14,131
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    Flat Matt wrote: »
    Not if I got there first you wouldn't!

    I'm picturing you and NX getting all DP. It could work.
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    Seth1Seth1 Posts: 676
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    Flat Matt wrote: »
    Not if I got there first you wouldn't!

    She' d baulk at your rhetoric
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 6,899
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    NX-74205 wrote: »
    Left alone to my own devices, I'd plough Susie Dent so hard to plant my seed that she'd think Jethro Tull himself had been reborn.
    Flat Matt wrote: »
    Not if I got there first you wouldn't!

    WIKIPEDIA

    Personal life[edit]

    Dent lives in Oxford with her husband, Paul, and their two daughters.[


    Sorry.
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