Word of the Day

[bugshaw]

So, where did you learn the meaning of "autodidact"?

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[dougs.livejournal.com]

I worked it out for myself, upon first seeing the word a few moments ago.

[ang-grrr.livejournal.com]

*guesses*

*looks*

Damn.

I had to look at OED online.

[madcatwoman.livejournal.com]

Um - dictionary.com, I'm ashamed to say! Just now, in fact...

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Appropriately, from a dictionary. I cannot remember exactly when.

[missfairchild.livejournal.com]

[laughs]

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Probably from reading Heinlein at an early age...

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Worked it out from context... Like atropinesulfate, I was always saying "Oh, so that's how it's pronounced" when I was dead young.

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Either from reading books (not dictionarties) or from look at the two latin components (or is it one latin one greek?).

[muninnhuginn]

All Greek according to the OED.

Which is what it was to me...

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

Where? Probably a dictionary. When? Later.

[the-gardener.livejournal.com]

Probably worked it out from its context, but have no idea when. Many years ago, I expect.

[robthefish.livejournal.com]

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.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

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.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Oi.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

You boys go play in your own journals.

[maureenkspeller.livejournal.com]

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.

Pretentious but true

[dmsherwood53.livejournal.com]

From a review of of a Koesler Collection

[numbat.livejournal.com]

Don't look at me, I'm acerebral.