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What about you? (lemmings.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

For me it was Bad Religion lyrics. 13 year old me would sit down in front of the CD player, booklet in one hand, dictionary in the other. Greg Graffin uses an obscene amount of vocabulary that I haven't encountered anywhere else.

One example:

The masses are obsequious, contented in their sleep. The vortex of their minds ensconced within the murky deep

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Yeah, insane. And he sings those lines so easily like it was just basic stuff.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I bet you would like Aesop Rock

https://pudding.cool/projects/vocabulary/index.html

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I'm a native speaker and even I learned words from reading that

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Lmfao I literally made this meme years ago. I can't deny they've expanded my vocabulary greatly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I'm a native English speaker, and Greg Graffin did more for my vocabulary than public schools ever did.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Garfunkel and Oates are great for it too