/lit/ - Literature

>>7476

>also I am looking a book that can help a person increase his knowledge of English vocabulary

for that you might just want to read.

not twilight, but generally speaking, reading is a very good way to improve your lexicon.

as for persuading people. i think that for once in his life the trashman was right. even though i don't know how well he held to his own principles…

>>7484

Do know what books would be a good fit for this job?

>>7585

you mean, improving your lexicon?

being a non native speaker for me is different, improving my vocabulary came from a lot of very different sources, like movie reviews (actual reviews, not the TGWTG like "reviews"), series like blackadder, and basically every book in english i've ever read especially up to a point where now i rarely look at the dictionary.

but if i had to make a suggestion i'd probably say the hobbit and LOTR (if you are into that kind of stuff, of course).

in particular i read the hobbit both in my language and in english, and i remember having to check on the internet for one word or two, and the only example for the use of those words is…the hobbit.

but in general, follow your interests. you won't learn if your heart is not in it.

>>7487

>god tier

I think you mean the OED2, faggot.

>>7592

Tolkien threw in a lot of geographical words, most of which I'd never heard of until then. I remember nabbing a few.

>>7603

Look at the cover, faggot:

>Most definitions—over 215,000

>>7605

>over 215,000

KEK.

>SECOND EDITION

>291,500

http://public.oed.com/history-of-the-oed/dictionary-facts/

>>7612

Also, this thing is even complete. The faggots didn't all the words they had in it:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7926646/Secret-vault-of-words-rejected-by-the-Oxford-English-Dictionary-uncovered.html

>This storeroom contains millions of words and some of them date back hundreds of years.

>They now lie in a vault in Oxford alongside millions of other unused words which are written on 6in by 4in cards and stored alphabetically in 50 huge filing cabinets.

>>7613

*isn't even