Comments on: vocab list http://www.dianapeterfreund.com/vocab-list/ Novelist, Dog-Lover, Bon Vivant Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:48:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mimi http://www.dianapeterfreund.com/vocab-list/comment-page-1/#comment-176 mimi Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:12:00 +0000 http://gator465.hostgator.com/~dianablu/vocab-list/#comment-176 Amen, Diana! Someone hurled the "look up everything in the dictionary" comment at me early on, too. I decided to ignore it. Context and a brain are wonderful things. Romance readers are so much smarter than people give them credit for! Of course they can figure out the words--even bizarre ones like "cicisbeo" would make sense if you saw the context. Duh. It's called reading, hello??<br/><br/>I'm right with you on "pique," too. Drives me nearly as crazy as "can't help but." Elvis used the phrase properly--why can't everyone else? Amen, Diana! Someone hurled the “look up everything in the dictionary” comment at me early on, too. I decided to ignore it. Context and a brain are wonderful things. Romance readers are so much smarter than people give them credit for! Of course they can figure out the words–even bizarre ones like “cicisbeo” would make sense if you saw the context. Duh. It’s called reading, hello??

I’m right with you on “pique,” too. Drives me nearly as crazy as “can’t help but.” Elvis used the phrase properly–why can’t everyone else?

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