word nerd

aficionado: a person who is very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about an activity, subject, or pastime

[worm-generator]

man. the secret history has become so synonymous with dark academia that when u look through the tag its just knit sweaters and latte art. like please show me a text post about how fucking unhinged richard was for staying in a room with a Literal hole in the wall during the dead of winter and almost dying of hypothermia.

[wordsaficionado]

The thing about sirius is it’s a binary star, but one is brighter than the other.

[wordsaficionado]

physics is so beautiful because everytime your heart beats it sends out a tiny little wave of sound and when you lay next to them and the world is quiet your hearts can talk to each other

[wordsaficionado]

if I’ve ever loved you unfortunately people WILL end up knowing about it. I cannot keep my love hidden from my poetry. or from my friends.

[only-cat-memes]

[nondelphic]

me, writing the perfect first line for my novel: this is it. the line that will change the world.

me, 10 minutes later: maybe not

[wordsaficionado]

if I was a vampire I would learn every language ever, nothing could stop me

[wordsaficionado]

there are too many books in the world to ever hope to read them all and what a beautiful truth that is

[wordsaficionado]

hey guys quick question…

how would we feel about taking words off of my word list if I realize they’re actually pretty common and not unique?

Feel free to!

Please never do

You should make a separate poll for each word

Voting ended onSep 5, 2024

This is mostly because I don’t want it to become clogged up and stuff with words that are easy to know, as I feel that takes away some of the glamour surrounding it. Feel free to leave thoughts and stuff in the replies!! :)

[wordsaficionado]

I think it’s time we should all admit that Anne of Green Gables is one of the most well written pieces of literature ever created, and frankly one of the best.

[wordsaficionado]

you do!! it’s SO good

[wordsaficionado]

I think it’s time we should all admit that Anne of Green Gables is one of the most well written pieces of literature ever created, and frankly one of the best.

[alivingtypo]

you can pry starting sentences with 'and' or 'but' out of my cold, dead hands

[today-till-tomorrow]

op how does it feel to be the most correct person on earth

[wordsaficionado]

Obviously my favorite dictionary is the Oxford one but I do have to admire the pluck of Merriam-Webster. If I cannot find a word in Oxford, it’s usually there, which I appreciate but must admit I also judge.

[wordsaficionado]

you know it’s a good word when the notes app marks it as misspelled.

[arrowmoose]

I made a meme

[wordsaficionado]

I think a great piece of advice for people who want to learn, but don’t know what to learn, is to take advantage of Wikipedia.

However, the second half of this advice is use that specific feature where some words are highlighted, and fall into rabbit holes. The best part about this is you don’t have to have anything super specific to search.

Say, for example, I was in the mood for some ELA type stuff, but I don’t know what kinds of stuff there is. I simply go on Wikipedia and search English. Admittedly, that doesn’t bring up much, but there IS a blue link to a page about the English language.

From there, I can click on things like “Indo-European language family” and “early Medieval England” and “British Empire” if I’m in the mood for more history things. Or, if I really want to learn about words, I can click the vocabulary section, or the phonology section, or the orthography section, or even the grammar section.

There’s so much to be learned in this one broad category, and it’s the same for every other subject you learn in school, which is a great place to start.

Math (mathematics)? Empirical sciences, number theory, and set theory are just in the opening paragraph. Not to mention the sections titled “relationship with astrology and esotericism” and “symbolical notation.”

History? Well, from history we can get to History of Earth, and it’s not hard to guess how much is there. There’s also anything that could be the History of; History of Mankind, History of Dinosaurs, History of Philosophy, literally pretty much anything you could want to learn about is on Wikipedia.

The point is, Wikipedia is an amazing tool and source of knowledge. This strategy is a great way to actually access that knowledge. Have fun!

[theambitiouswoman]

[iamwhatismissing]

made me think of this

[id: x/twitter qrt from user styloshka that says "I read a forum post about art once, that it's a product of the dialectic between the effort of the artist and the friction of the medium. You push on the thing and the thing pushes back on you, it has its own voice. The weight of a piano key, the tension of a guitar string." original post from user colleen_daves says "Don't you want to skip over the mindless drudgery that is making art?" I do six stand embroidery and break like 10 needles a day, would I prefer that activity didn't hurt my hands and make me angry? Sure. But that's what makes having the finished piece after so worth it to me."]

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[gwydionmisha]

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely loved when I got assigned a solo and would dance it over and over as much for pleasure as for the quest for perfection, but I loved the rest of it too.

I loved the slow methodical mediation of the stretches before class. I loved the quiet discipline of the barre exercises, the endless repetition, the feel of me shaping my body into the same forms, closer ever closer to correct.

Most of the others didn't rush onto the floor the moment it cleared to stretch alone.

Most of the others complained endlessly about barre. For me it was part of it. All of it was dancing and I loved dancing in every fiber of my being, pushing ever pushing at the boundaries of what my body can do.

It was never boring to me, not even the most mundane, repetitious parts. I gave no fucks for those few performances in front of the audience; I was dancing for me and that included doing feet positions over and over at the barre. It was doing the thing that mattered and I loved every second of it.

I was the same way with the assorted marital arts styles I studied over the years until my body gave out. The spars are the glamourous bits, but I loved the drills too, repeating, repeating, repeating.

I was the same way with candle wicking and needlepoint, my fingers reading canvas. My fingers mindlessly going in and out or doing the knots over and over.

It is possible to love every part of the thing, the colours unrealing on canvas, the patterns on linen, the repetition of form of drill of motion. Effort and beauty and sweat forever tangled together.

[elodieunderglass]

This is what Annie Dilliard said

A well-known writer got collared by a university student who asked, ”Do you think I could be a writer?”

”Well,” the writer said, ”I don’t know. . . . Do you like sentences?”

The writer could see the student’s amazement. Sentences? Do I like sentences? I am 20 years old and do I like sentences? If he had liked sentences, of course, he could begin, like a joyful painter I knew. I asked him how he came to be a painter. He said, ”I liked the smell of the paint.”