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Originally Posted by hildea
Like you, I've improved my English by reading a lot of science fiction and fantasy. That results in a weird vocabulary -- I realized once that I knew half a dozen synonyms for "wizard", but had no idea of the English word for that thing with wheels you push around when transporting a baby  (The word is "stroller", someone told me.) |
In USA it's stroller, in England it's pushchair.
An essential word to learn is 'Grok'. Any science fiction Fantasy fan needs to know that one. It's basically to fully understand something and comes from a classic science fiction novel,
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein.