― Casuistry (casuistry), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry (casuistry), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry (casuistry), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link
how the hell do you pronounce "Succinct"?
― jergins, Monday, 21 February 2011 03:24 (thirteen years ago) link
suck-sinkt or suss-inked
this is important
i pronounce it suss-sinkt, lavishing attention upon every consonant.
― estela, Monday, 21 February 2011 03:26 (thirteen years ago) link
it's such a princess of a word, i am strongly considering cutting it out of my vocabulary.
― estela, Monday, 21 February 2011 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link
in my head, I say it suss-inked. I've never tried to say it out loud.
― jaq, Monday, 21 February 2011 03:33 (thirteen years ago) link
it's funny, words you know really well, and know the meaning of, but don't ever say
― jergins, Monday, 21 February 2011 03:34 (thirteen years ago) link
oh you people.
suhk-singkt (səkˈsɪŋkt)
― lxy, Monday, 21 February 2011 03:35 (thirteen years ago) link
xp (or always say wrong)
― lxy, Monday, 21 February 2011 03:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Mr. Jaq and I have had rows over desultory and banal.
― jaq, Monday, 21 February 2011 03:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I miss our "We love everything VN wrote except Ada" thread on real ILX.
― wang dang google doodle (James Redd), Friday, 16 December 2011 02:14 (twelve years ago) link
Yep!
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 16 December 2011 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
actually I don't like a lot of his novels.
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 16 December 2011 03:06 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, a half dozen of his short stories and "canonical" novels are all I need.
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 16 December 2011 03:07 (twelve years ago) link
in an old interview I read of his, nabokov said it's pronounced like it is when you say "up nina"
― good webinar (ha ha I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 16 December 2011 05:17 (twelve years ago) link
the two long ones (ada and the gift) are my least favorites
― n/a, Friday, 16 December 2011 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't care all that much for Pale Fire or even Lolita. Glory (in translation obv) was ok and there were a couple others I couldn't really make myself read. Pnin is my favorite - maybe it's Nabokov for people who don't love Nabokov, idk.
― Hurting, Friday, 16 December 2011 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
Pnin is kind of an outlier, it feels warmer and more human and less dense than most of his books - it's probably my second- or third-favorite Nabokov. I think there is depth there but he doesn't fuck with his readers as directly as in most of his books.
― n/a, Friday, 16 December 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, that's why I like it so much: it's a victory lap novel.
― Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 17 December 2011 01:55 (twelve years ago) link