I have found that my vocabulary is not that wide and I tend to have a limited vocabulary. I am clever in the way I use the words I use so that it is not so noticable to others. From a child I soon learned to ignore and skip words I don't understand and my mind fills in the gaps if that makes any sense.
The issue is that here in Wales, there is another language which I have never been able to work with it and this upsets some people and there are people who can speak english fluently but refuse to talk to anyone who does not speak welsh as they were brought up from an early age to discriminate as a way of life. Understandably I want nothing to do with these people as to me they are not real Welsh people, as Welsh people have that deep inbuilt love for strangers. (How one can tell who is really welsh or not if one comes to visit Wales).
My vocabluary is probably triple what it would have been had I not had a Mother who is also like me but instead of thinking in pictures, she thinks in words! She could read and write from the age of two and a half and had read most of the adults books in her local library by the time she was age six. She writes to think. If she does maths, she writes it all out in word form to understand it.
She was like a walking encyclopedia growing up and new nearly every word in the dictionary which she carried around and read daily in her younger years, much in the same way I would carry train books! If my Mum was not who she was, I would not have had such a wide use of words.
I remember an english teacher in school say my vocabluary was limited and I should read more books and yet I was repeatedly reading railway books several times a night. (I preferred books with pictures of trains with captions to read as I get more out of visual picture thought than words, but I did read both... But with pictures, I really come into my element!
25 Aug 2024, 9:05 am
