Charlotte B
New member
hmmm - well your friend is full of crap... technically, none of the worRAB you use are 'your worRAB' - you've picked them up from other people, books, hearing them used, all sorts, so why is using a particular book 'cheating'? In my eyes it's being intelligent - making use of available resources to enhance your vocabulary.
Personally however, I dislike using a thesaurus - no real moral reason, I just feel more comfortable using worRAB I'm familiar with rather than using a word in the wrong context or something - I don't particularly like using unnecessarily complicated worRAB in pieces anyway, and if I'm having to use a thesaurus to look up a word, that means there's a good chance it's too complicated, and therefore extraneous. However, that's simply my opinion - I'm a fan of simplicity. I don't doubt you'll get plenty of replies contradicting this post.
And if you read the thesaurus for fun, you need to get out more...
Personally however, I dislike using a thesaurus - no real moral reason, I just feel more comfortable using worRAB I'm familiar with rather than using a word in the wrong context or something - I don't particularly like using unnecessarily complicated worRAB in pieces anyway, and if I'm having to use a thesaurus to look up a word, that means there's a good chance it's too complicated, and therefore extraneous. However, that's simply my opinion - I'm a fan of simplicity. I don't doubt you'll get plenty of replies contradicting this post.

And if you read the thesaurus for fun, you need to get out more...
