Every three sentences I have to search up the meaning of a new word. My vocabulary isn't that deficient, it's just this cunt insists on using words like>Contretemps>Verisimilitude>Debonair>Surreptitious>Friable>Plangency>NictateEvery. Goddamn. Sentence.Am I being filtered or is this supposed to have a narrative function or what the hell is Nabokov's problem?I can't even get in a good reading headspace because of the incessant semantic disruptions.
>>25387827I've never read him but learning new words is part of the fun of reading imo, even though I think most "big words" are totally redundant. Particularly French loan words, they only really exist because early 20th century pseudos wanted to signal their sense of self sophistication.
>>25387827Ok some of these are obscure but verisimilitude, debonair and surreptitious are straight from the pages of “Babby’s First Literary Dictionary.” Your vocabulary is much smaller than you think. Take my advice, kid: get a notebook and jot down the new words and look them up after reading. It’s much less intrusive.
Try getting an ereader then? Faggot. My kobo really helped me a lot with nakobov's reading
