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ex. How to tie shoes
ex. Can you cry underwater?

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If you're reading something and you don't understand a word, should you stop and research it or should you keep reading the whole thing first? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by Lafari@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

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[–] cynar@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

As others have said context is important. If you can infer its meaning, and it's not critical to understanding, then just roll with it. If it's critical, or you can infer, look it up.

I would highly recommend also looking up its pronunciation. Once you start using it wrong internally, it can leak out and utterly confuse people. Though that might just be a "me" problem. 🤷‍♂️

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Nah, I think we all do that. I remember my gf back in the day laughing her ass off because I was trying to say misshapen.

"You know, miss-happen, like, malformed."

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