http://www.wordnik.com/lists/learned-or-encountered-in-reading#comments Comments for the list 'Learned (or Encountered) in Reading' http://www.wordnik.com http://www.wordnik.com/lists/learned-or-encountered-in-reading#comments Aye, that's a fine method. I don't actually have a Miscellaneous list, though. The closest thing is my Favorites list, which is really a Guantanamo Bay-type, indefinite-detention facility for words I like but don't know what else to do with.<br /><br />The only reason I'd seek to organize this list a bit more than it is, is for ease of finding the words again without having to wade through 500 words to do it. I was toying with the thought of organizing them by where they were encountered first or most recently (e.g. which book), but that seems less than useful as several of the books offered up fewer than a dozen word gems. Several Wordizens, I've noticed, have "Learned from Wordie" lists (alas, I do not), and several as well as myself have a "Learned on freerice.com" list. There are those words I learn at work, or from talking to other people, but for the most part those have fit onto either my "favorites" list or some other.<br /><br />I may start a Disease and Conditions list, as you suggest, mollusque (though I don't anticipate that that particular reading jag will continue for long, so it doesn't seem like it will be continually added to). For the rest, I'm not sure there's a particularly unifying theme.<br /><br />Oh well. Something will either come to me, or not. Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:00:16 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/lists/learned-or-encountered-in-reading#comments http://www.wordnik.com/lists/learned-or-encountered-in-reading#comments I have some words on several lists as well c_b. My miscellaneous list is a holding pen until enough related words accumulate to transfer to a new list. Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:10:25 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/lists/learned-or-encountered-in-reading#comments http://www.wordnik.com/lists/learned-or-encountered-in-reading#comments That's cool c_b. Serendipitous lists can be fun to explore. Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:33:46 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/lists/learned-or-encountered-in-reading#comments http://www.wordnik.com/lists/learned-or-encountered-in-reading#comments Appreciate the suggestions, mollusque... Sadly, I do not subscribe to the notion that one's words should be listed in only one place. (The ones on other lists are there intentionally.) Though I agree that many can be transferred. *ponders* Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:05:59 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/lists/learned-or-encountered-in-reading#comments http://www.wordnik.com/lists/learned-or-encountered-in-reading#comments Fortunately, c_b, you did not wait as long as yarb did before seeking help, so the situation is not yet <a href="/words/augean">augean</a>. There is, however, a strong undercurrent of disease and malaise here which I suggest be quarantined. Among the remaining items, many are compound words interesting for concept rather than sound. These might be contained in a compound compound. Finally, as the majority of your vocabulary is surely derived from reading, this list will never be comprehensive, and instead represents words that do not yet fit elsewhere. Therefore <a href="/words/pleosauri">pleosauri</a> and several others can transferred to one of your other lists without compromising the integrity of this one. Indeed, a few such as <a href="/words/chokedamp">chokedamp</a> are already so positioned and need only be deleted here. Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:09:15 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/lists/learned-or-encountered-in-reading#comments http://www.wordnik.com/lists/learned-or-encountered-in-reading#comments I concur; mollusque is a list-splitter extraordinaire. Sun, 05 Oct 2008 06:12:15 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/lists/learned-or-encountered-in-reading#comments http://www.wordnik.com/lists/learned-or-encountered-in-reading#comments You should ask mollusque, the most authoritative list-splitter. Sun, 05 Oct 2008 04:37:39 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/lists/learned-or-encountered-in-reading#comments http://www.wordnik.com/lists/learned-or-encountered-in-reading#comments I'm gonna need to reorganize this list, eventually, and split it up. Right now it's just a catch-all and it's only going to get bigger. Any thoughts on the criteria for sortage? Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:23:04 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/lists/learned-or-encountered-in-reading#comments http://www.wordnik.com/lists/learned-or-encountered-in-reading#comments Well, you gotta know the right neighborhoods to hang out in, I guess. ;) Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:55:52 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/lists/learned-or-encountered-in-reading#comments http://www.wordnik.com/lists/learned-or-encountered-in-reading#comments I've been to Reading (the one in Pennsylvania, not England) a few times, but never encountered such, um, curious words! Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:35:57 +0000 http://www.wordnik.com/lists/learned-or-encountered-in-reading#comments