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I suggest starting with "radical", "make up", and "vile". Then maybe branch out a bit and try "nickname".
> I think too often the linguistic community ignores prescriptivism as a meaningful social construct
Linguists don't ignore prescriptivism; they reject it as being unscientific. Much of what prescriptivists claim we ought to say or write doesn't stand up to scrutiny in the face of the linguistic evidence. That's the point.
It's not true to say that if you a descriptivist, you can't advocate for using formal language in an essay, or advise people on how to deliver a presidential speech. You just do it from an informed scientific point of view. For example, Steven Pinker, linguist and cognitive psychologist, wrote a style guide a few years ago as a modern descriptive alternative to Strunk and White et al.
On Strunk and White, this podcast episode by John McWhorter (Against Strunk and White) will give you more insight into the folly of prescriptivism. Well worth listening to.
>these types are taking advantage of the fact that many white people in North America today don't have a culture
with shit like this I don't think I have to, you don't really comprehend what you're talking about
you might find a dictionary handy in your travels, you can have one for like $5
Uh, ok? Are you aware you were just watching a baseball game? The rockets play basketball.
Seriously, man, read up, less than ten bucks on amazon. It’ll show up right to your door.
Lexicon Urthus: A Dictionary for the Urth Cycle, which is an encyclopedia of people, places, and terms used in BotNS, has a summary of all the Severians. It also has a lot of commentary and analysis that might not be obvious upon one's first read, so it's a book I recommend all Wolfe fans get, alongside others like Solar Labyrinth.
https://www.amazon.ca/Frequency-Dictionary-Japanese-Yukio-Tono/dp/0415610133/
there is a deck with audio built around it.
I also recommend getting Lexicon Urthus: A Dictionary for the Urth Cycle, which is an encyclopedia of people, places, and terms used in BotNS. It includes a lot of commentary and analysis that might not be obvious upon one's first read. The same author also wrote an excellent chapter guide that provides a lot of insight, such as allusions to other works that may have escaped the reader. Turns out Wolfe makes a lot of them.
The good news is that academic writing, in general, sucks, so it won't take you much work to write better than most (source: PhD student who has had to suffer through lots of atrocious papers and talks). Hell, stop using the passive voice and you're already in the top 10%.
Whatever you do, never ever ever try to impress your reader by making things more complicated than they have to be. No one has ever read a paper, attended a talk, or sat through a lecture and though 'gosh, I wish this was less accessible'. The things you should strive for in academic writing are clarity and narrative flow. A good writer makes difficult ideas seem effortless. A bad writer makes simple ideas seem complicated.
The highest compliment you can give in my field is to call someone's work elegant, which in this context means 'gracefully concise and simple'. Strive for elegance.
If you want a good guide for academic writing, I can't recommend Steven Pinker's The Sense of Style enough. It's fantastic. Buy it right now. No, seriously, here's an amazon link.
If you're that interested, you should spend the $100/year for a subscription to the Oxford English Dictionary. It's the definitive English dictionary, and in certain cases has multi-page etymologies.
Another option, if you live near an English-language university, would be to check out their library for the OED. My university's law library had a copy - all 20 volumes - that I used on a few occasions.
These may help you find answers quicker:
Although the title says what every American needs to know, I think this book is good for non-Americans who work or interact with Americans: The New Dictionary Of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
"The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications: Rätsch, Christian, Hofmann, Albert: 9780892819782: Books - Amazon.ca" https://www.amazon.ca/Encyclopedia-Psychoactive-Plants-Ethnopharmacology-Applications/dp/0892819782
It's worth every penny absolutely love this book
A server, is a computer.
For less than 10 usd, you can educate yourself and not look dumb in future conversations.
There is this really comprehensive encyclopedia of cultural knowledge that you might find helpful: The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know https://www.amazon.com/dp/0618226478/
I can see how people would think that. But here's a common "real" dictionary. It has 225,000 definitions it.
By comparison, the Scrabble dictionary only has about 100,000.
It's easier for a good Scrabble player to just memorize all the short, obscure words in the Scabble dictionary than in a "real" one.
hey stupid u/UpDootMoop i got something for you to invest in
I will go ahead and leave this right here for you, Professor Eagleton.
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition, Jacketed Hardcover, Indexed, 2020 Copyright https://www.amazon.com/dp/0877798095/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_393682B7GVJ7VTBVSG0Z
I highly recommend using this frequency dictionary. It organizes both grammar and words by frequency but they are all mixed in. For example, は (if I remember correctly) is the first on the list.
https://www.amazon.com/Frequency-Dictionary-Japanese-Routledge-Dictionaries/dp/0415610133
I read it in a book called The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants.
There's a difference between a blatant typo and you repeatedly failing to spell liar. Try to keep up.
Merriam-Webster's Pocket Dictionary, Newest Edition, (Flexi Paperback) (Pocket Reference Library) https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0877795304/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_9D59GVA4DJB72N6119JY?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Merriam-Webster's Pocket Dictionary, Newest Edition, (Flexi Paperback) (Pocket Reference Library) https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0877795304/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_9D59GVA4DJB72N6119JY?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Here ya go. It's $5. I'm sure you can afford it if you have the internet to pretend to play victim 😉.
Exactly! Thank you.
Thanks for the recommendation. Here's a really useful, academic level one: The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0892819782
And if you look up the paper "Getting High witch the Most High" online, you will find a really good study on where they appear in the Bible.
If you’re interested in shamanic plants there’s a brilliant book that you can use as a leap board to gain quite advanced knowledge pretty quick
The PDF is 2 minutes away on google, I had the PDF and just had to buy the book. It’s an 11 out of 10 for me
Most of the plants I wouldn’t touch, like datura. You don’t do datura datura does you. It’s for the most advanced shamans like many. Some of the plants are dangerous like transdermal absorption dangerous, just handling them can fuck you up. I have the utmost respect for plants, the true overlords IMo
> illegal moves aren’t forbidden
Please buy one of these. You desperately need a dictionary.
Lol. Says the person calling people stupid, who doesn’t know words. Keep talking, you’re making me look good.
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Newest Edition, (Mass-Market Paperback) https://www.amazon.com/dp/087779295X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_0GWRBCJ2MFX06X5X80SH
There are many plants with active compounds mate
Carvacrol for example
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carvacrol
It’s in oregano oil in high concentrations, is an anti inflammatory that stops pneumonia taking over hint it’s useful to have in your cupboard
There are many papers which document the effects of countless compounds, MGO is another very interesting one
There’s books that are literally life changing the PDF of this is out there easy to find
This book will help you explore different alternatives to cannabis. I love this book.
I would like to see you explain how getting an injection is “less invasive” than wearing a hazmat suit. Surely you could use one of these.
u/Seriously86, u/SiriusFiction quite literally wrote the book on Gene Wolfe not making up any words for BotNS...