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[weirdami]

If there's a word that I can't instantly translate I probably can make the meaning of the word up from the rest of the phrase.

That's what they teach you to do in elementary school (some places called grammar school, ironically). At least, they did for me. I don't know many people around that use context to figure the meaning of words anymore.   :roll:

[weirdami]

motorollin wrote:

Children do it all the time. If they don't know the meaning of a word, they will examine the context and use a series of principles and constraints to work out to what the word refers. I don't know whether there is any research in to whether adults do this.

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moto

My experience with children is "what does that mean". Maybe I'm just around lots of stupid kids.  :-(