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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > ITT I post every word I don't know from Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
 
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Foxfire_
Nov 8, 2010

Doc Fission posted:

Oh yeah, now it sounds familiar. I wonder if it's a mandatory school immunization here in the States. And if that vaccine can also give me 5G connectivity.

You should have gotten 4-5 doses of DTaP (diptheria, tetanus, pertussis) vaccine as a baby. Then either Tdap or Td boosters every 10 years.

cant cook creole bream posted:

I'm not ashamed to say that I knew none of those and wont remember them either. Why does the English language need a word for a naturally grown club? Also I have no idea how that would be pronounced. Is that Gaelic?
It's very Irish & named after an Irish town

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Foxfire_
Nov 8, 2010

artism posted:

diphtheria (at one time and possibly still a common affliction among alcoholics)
Did this change meaning at some point? The modern one is a bacterial disease common before vaccination.

Sri.Theo posted:

Isn’t this some sort of decoration? I think it looks like the top bits of a castle.
It's the wiggly bits at the top of a castle wall that you hide behind then lean out for shooting. Typically much too short in fantasy fictional castles. Real functional ones are big enough to hide without ducking
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Foxfire_
Nov 8, 2010

Doc Fission posted:

revetment
military fortification thing?

Doc Fission posted:

dunnage
I want to say something about coins

e: It is not something about coins. It is a word that I knew at one point though

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Foxfire_
Nov 8, 2010

 Number of Words From Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian That Doc Fission Did Not Know: 38
Number of Words From Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian That Doc Fission Did Know: 10203

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Foxfire_
Nov 8, 2010

cant cook creole bream posted:

Is that cross referenced for duplicates?
ebook to text -> split by whitespace -> remove punctuation -> lowercase -> count unique words

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