Post #1939805
2026-04-27 08:55 UTC
Replies (5)
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@asta@sunny.garden 2026-04-27 09:00
I've been reading a lot of sci-fi written by Adrian Tchaikovsky* lately and he uses a good amount of words that I need to look up, despite having read a fair lot of literature in English in the past 20 years. My British partner couldn't tell me what it means, either, but he's not as much of a reader. I'm just curious about how well known these sorts of words are! *Tchaikovsky was born and educated in England, so British English is his native language. I'm mentioning this because it's relevant to the topic and because I didn't realise until I saw his bio in one of his books.
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@Gulleko@kind.social 2026-04-27 12:08
@asta@sunny.garden I know that it has to do with talking, but couldn't give an exact definition. My vocabulary is mainly from devouring books, but I also took more english classes than I needed because I found it easy. 😅
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@Horisevaharju@piipitin.fi 2026-04-27 18:20
@asta@sunny.garden even though my english is pretty ok in my opinion, every now and then I stumble upon a word like this, that I have absolutely no idea what it means. A bit of context helps usually a bit, but with this word I wouldn’t be so sure :D
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@punktrock@sunny.garden 2026-04-27 19:51
@asta@sunny.garden I just looked the meaning up (non-native speaker, no clue) and yea, that makes sense. There was a character in a show I liked whose first name was Loquatius ... and he sure was loquacious.
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@aliceinwaterdeep@sunny.garden 2026-04-28 12:57
@asta@sunny.garden I'm too late to the poll, would have voted "Absolutely", but only because it's very similar in Italian 😆 interestingly enough I don't think I've ever seen/heard it in English before though.