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Originally Posted by DMB
No-one knows every word in their language, but a well educated adult isn't going to meet many new words when reading unless the reading is in a very specialised area.
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I have a degree in English and one in Electrical Engineering and I still have to look up words occasionally, even with the context. Husband has two degrees in Software Engineering and he frequently asks me what words mean.
Mother and Father also frequently ask me words, but these are often words not in the Oxford English dictionary -- or, if they are, they were added very recently.
Languages evolve. Old, unused words come into vogue again. New words are coined. Sometimes old meanings are resurrected and used. Especially now when every author alive has an Internet-powered thesaurus at their fingertips.
"isn't going to meet many new words" means that the reader WILL meet
some new words. Why not have a dictionary at hand on the eReader? I'm not going to flame-on to the OP, but I don't really understand the point of this question. It's an obvious add-on and it takes up little space.
For me, I like the Wikipedia lookup on my Sony more than the dictionary, but that's a personal preference.
