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Here's a quote from you: "Knowing complicated words and terms before you've mastered the simpler ones is in my opinion a wrong allocation of resources." Now lo
by erikb 11y ago
Here's a quote from you: "Knowing complicated words and terms before you've mastered the simpler ones is in my opinion a wrong allocation of resources."
Now look at it again only from the point of view of someone who knows just a few common words (but knows these well): "Know### (maybe the past?) ### words and ### before you've (you have? maybe) master## (what's that slavery stuff about?) the simpler ones is in my opinion a wrong ### of ###. (a wrong what?)"
- jacquesm 11y agoI'm no longer a beginner in English. But once upon a time I was (and in Polish, French and German too). English is just about a second native language to me now. One other trick I've found very useful in finding out the meaning of words is to reduce them to something even less than a stem, simply drop all the vowels and pretend all the d,t and v,w and c/s pairs and so on are equal. If you know a word in another language of the same family chances are that you can figure out what a word means. It's surprising how often that method yields results (and some spectacular failures as well!).