Comments on: Seven Easy Ways to Improve Your Vocabulary Without Even Trying

By: tonisan60

tonisan60 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:04:57 +0000

Your advices are the best, not only if you are an English speaker, that rules applies for all languages on eatrh, that is the way I had imprved my Italian and my Spanish, now I am looking for do the same with my Englisg, in order to write poetry in English that will not be translations of my Spanish and Italian work, for now, i had only written less than 5 poems in English, all very short, the most of my English poetry is a translation (made by nyself) of the ones I had written in Spanish.
Thank you for sharing, a very well done article, this one. My claps for your work

By: anu75

anu75 — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:30:07 +0000

I have read your this article many times. I follow the instructions you refer in your article to improve my vocabulary,and this really works.

By: Andromeda

Andromeda — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:22:03 +0000

Since everyone is "so smart", I am going to check out the published works of the critics here. It will be interesting to see how smart and organized their articles undoubtedly are since ill words of critisism flow off their tongues so easily. I appreciated this article's message as not needing to sit down with grammar books or take a college-level English course. These are very good ideas to increase daily vocabulary and to use this new vocabulary properly.
It is unnerving to me when a self-proclaimed "intellectual" using pretentious vocabulary inappropriately. I have a feeling some of the critics here do that.
The New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Investors Business Daily cost double or triple the money of a daily local newspaper. Ignorant people feel they are getting the same news and the same exposure. As Anne explained, buy the expensive papers, folks. You will be speaking eloquently and properly.

Andromeda

By: vardananda

vardananda — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:31:50 +0000

Hi,

I quote Kiefer from above:

"I think at least five of those required a good deal of trying so I'm not sure how much the title can apply."

I am afraid he is right! However you have succeeded by virtue of your title to draw more crowd to read your article though it does not contain anything substantially new.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:36:04 +0000

I think what some of these commenters are really saying is that they don’t want to better themselves; they’re happy with their ignorance. And so they complain about the lack of links, or claim that the suggestions are ridiculous. You just can’t convince some people that more knowledge is better than less.

By: Kristin

Kristin — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:06:48 +0000

Many of those suggestions sound utterly rediculous. Sorry, maybe you should take your own advice

By: L F Calland

L F Calland — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:56:27 +0000

I certainly enjoyed the article, but I agree that you could have given us the links. Anyway… congratulations on the article and in reaching the top ten.

By: R J Evans

R J Evans — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:46:17 +0000

Don’t let peope like “Dave” drag you down. You have more talent in your little finger than he does in his whole body (which I suspect lacks reproductive organs!). Go! Nice one!

Rxx

By: India

India — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:14:08 +0000

I take latin in school so I know some greek and latin words, roots, prefixes and suffixes. Also, in english i had to learn about 500 greek and latin stems such as intra (within), cap (head) and cyan (blue). They really help when trying to decipher what words that you don’t know mean.

By: Kiefer

Kiefer — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:19:25 +0000

I think at least five of those required a good deal of trying so I’m not sure how much the title can apply.

However, very good list. Good job.