I have read several Booker Prize Winners books.I find that most writers have a very rich vocabulary .Arundhati Roy ,the writer of God of Small Things seems to know too many words,which are not commonly used.Some people describe her book as a torturous prose.Are some people just born with a rich vocab or is it something else.
2006-11-07 09:51:23 · 10 answers · asked by gulliver 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I don't think anybody is born with a richer vocabulary than others, but I do think that some people are born with an innate curiosity about such things. The people with larger vocabs are the people who are most interested in finding new words, understanding them completely, and using them properly.
2006-11-07 10:08:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No one is born with a vocabulary. As I develop as a writer, I find I need to find more precise words to say exactly what I mean. This often leads to expanding my vocabulary. I don't purposely use long, complicated words, unless there is no alternative to make my meaning clear.
It also helped that, every time I asked what a word meant, my mother replied, "Look it up in the dictionary."
2006-11-07 10:11:36 · answer #2 · answered by The Gadfly 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
people have offten asked me me the same question. I find that when writing, a good thesaurus helps keep descriptive passages from becoming to bland or repetative. Writers have to captivate an audiance, and if their stories are plauged with 'said' and 'went' and such and it begins to make for rather dull reading. Thesauruses are a way to say the same thing without it being the same thing...
happy reading
2006-11-07 09:58:49 · answer #3 · answered by ichigo_li2 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wow! Is this me writing this? Jk! lol! I do have an expanded vocabulary, though. You should try to read some older books, such as Robinsin Cruesoe, oe War of the Worlds. They are a great read!
2006-11-07 10:00:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm an author, and shouldn't give out the secret. But we use a thesaurus to find unusual words.
2006-11-07 09:57:09 · answer #5 · answered by author 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nobody is born with a rich vocabulary, it is something that is learned. And a good thesaurus is very handy too!
2006-11-07 09:58:50 · answer #6 · answered by Sandi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in the starting up its a poem, not a rap =) It has no metaphors, no wordplay, no punchlines.... 5/10- It receives repititive and most of the lines are purely stupid, a number of them make you imagine, yet others are rather cliche. you should study the guidelines of an artform formerly breaking them, and that is definately breaking the guidelines of rap....study the thanks to do it good formerly you pick to do it the incorrect way
2016-11-28 21:41:23 · answer #7 · answered by lemmer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think people learn and also are infulenced by who and what they are around, especially when they are younger
2006-11-07 09:59:51 · answer #8 · answered by yvonneras 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no its how u grow up
2006-11-07 09:59:18 · answer #9 · answered by Worldemperor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to dictionary.com!
2006-11-07 10:20:57 · answer #10 · answered by Jenny 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋