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My blog has some difficult built-in logistics.
I use amazing facts to demonstrate the meaning of (English) vocabulary words for those who want to develop an above-average vocabulary. So I would say that if 50 to 75 percent of the words are not in the reader's active vocabulary who is of mean proficiency, then it is successfully stretching the linguistic bounds. I do not want to use words that are so obscure that there is little opportunity to use them, nor words so common that everyone already knows them.
The first challenge is that each amazing fact should ideally be a poignant demonstration of a word. For example, a blue whale is a voracious eater because it consumes thousands of pounds per day. The Paharpur Business center is verdant because it contains 1,200 plants. I need to find amazing facts of sufficiently diverse color to match a large spectrum of words. The problem is that lesser-known words often have more specific meanings, which makes them more difficult to match to a fact. I can still see opportunities for many, many types of entries, but I fear that in the future I will repeatedly be saying to myself, "geez, I wish I didn't use 'leviathon' already", or whatever word comes up.
Any advice? I know it is a pretty difficult quandary. However, it is challenging and actually sort of fun for me to try to figure this all out.
I use amazing facts to demonstrate the meaning of (English) vocabulary words for those who want to develop an above-average vocabulary. So I would say that if 50 to 75 percent of the words are not in the reader's active vocabulary who is of mean proficiency, then it is successfully stretching the linguistic bounds. I do not want to use words that are so obscure that there is little opportunity to use them, nor words so common that everyone already knows them.
The first challenge is that each amazing fact should ideally be a poignant demonstration of a word. For example, a blue whale is a voracious eater because it consumes thousands of pounds per day. The Paharpur Business center is verdant because it contains 1,200 plants. I need to find amazing facts of sufficiently diverse color to match a large spectrum of words. The problem is that lesser-known words often have more specific meanings, which makes them more difficult to match to a fact. I can still see opportunities for many, many types of entries, but I fear that in the future I will repeatedly be saying to myself, "geez, I wish I didn't use 'leviathon' already", or whatever word comes up.
Any advice? I know it is a pretty difficult quandary. However, it is challenging and actually sort of fun for me to try to figure this all out.
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