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posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 03:15pm on 21/07/2004
So, where did you learn the meaning of "autodidact"?
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posted by [identity profile] dougs.livejournal.com at 07:20am on 21/07/2004
I worked it out for myself, upon first seeing the word a few moments ago.
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posted by [identity profile] ang-grrr.livejournal.com at 07:22am on 21/07/2004
*guesses*

*looks*

Damn.

I had to look at OED online.
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posted by [identity profile] madcatwoman.livejournal.com at 07:23am on 21/07/2004
Um - dictionary.com, I'm ashamed to say! Just now, in fact...
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posted by [identity profile] yonmei.livejournal.com at 07:25am on 21/07/2004
Appropriately, from a dictionary. I cannot remember exactly when.
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posted by [identity profile] missfairchild.livejournal.com at 07:28am on 21/07/2004
[laughs]
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posted by [identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com at 07:34am on 21/07/2004
Probably from reading Heinlein at an early age...
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posted by [identity profile] akicif.livejournal.com at 08:19am on 21/07/2004
Worked it out from context... Like [livejournal.com profile] atropinesulfate, I was always saying "Oh, so that's how it's pronounced" when I was dead young.
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posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 08:19am on 21/07/2004
Either from reading books (not dictionarties) or from look at the two latin components (or is it one latin one greek?).
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posted by [personal profile] muninnhuginn at 08:27am on 21/07/2004
All Greek according to the OED.

Which is what it was to me...
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posted by [identity profile] hawkida.livejournal.com at 08:28am on 21/07/2004
Where? Probably a dictionary. When? Later.
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posted by [identity profile] the-gardener.livejournal.com at 09:20am on 21/07/2004
Probably worked it out from its context, but have no idea when. Many years ago, I expect.
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posted by [identity profile] robthefish.livejournal.com at 10:34am on 21/07/2004
Think someone (teacher?) told me that ancient greek plays were 'didactic' and once I knew what that meant, then adding 'auto' to the front...well I made an educated guess and I looked at the context it was used in.

We are told to read because it expands our vocabulary but just as important it gives us a clue about how to use the new words we learn.
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posted by [identity profile] akirlu.livejournal.com at 01:34pm on 21/07/2004
Figured it out from context, while reading the observations of a self-described autodidact. Don't remember exactly when, but embarrassingly more recent than I'd like.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 01:23am on 22/07/2004
Oi.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 03:43pm on 23/07/2004
You boys go play in your own journals.
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posted by [identity profile] maureenkspeller.livejournal.com at 01:23am on 22/07/2004
Oh, years ago ... er, many, many years ago, it seems. I've no idea where I learned it but I know I was reading about working-class intellectuals and self-taught types when I was in my late teens, so probably then.
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posted by [identity profile] dmsherwood53.livejournal.com at 06:22am on 22/07/2004
From a review of of a Koesler Collection
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posted by [identity profile] numbat.livejournal.com at 08:56am on 22/07/2004
Don't look at me, I'm acerebral.
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