Eminem and Vocabulary

[metsfan1121]

Today I took the SAT test and as some of you may know there is a fairly high amount of vocabulary related questions on the test. Sure enough I came to a question and the correct answer was Truculent. I remember about a year ago when I first bought H:TS I heard him use the word in "A Kiss", and I looked it up to see what it meant. My question for you is, what word did you learn from eminem and how did it help you?

[Satan]

"antidisestablishmentarianism"

[Cinderella Stan]

I learned many words from him. I learned basically all the cuss words in English when I was 10. And in more recent years I learned what feltching means, lol. I can't think of some serious words to give as example right now, but there are quite a lot for sure.

[Damo.]

"antidisestablishmentarianism"

This

[UofLCard]

I learned from Stimulate that 'emulate' means to mimic. Not long afterwards , that word was a vocab term in my 10th grade English class.

[EminemInsider]

Inebriated.

[detox2030]

"antidisestablishmentarianism"

[Jason M.]

I didn't understand 75% of Relapse the first time I heard it. It was the first Eminem album I've heard, I was young, didn't know English well, and frankly, if I knew what he was talking about, I don't think I would've kept listening to him. Fortunately I had no idea. I just liked the way it sounded.

So yeah, all types of sex positions, drug names, and more things I probably wouldn't have heard in normal conversations. Listening to him definitely helped me learn English better, I consider myself to speak almost perfectly now, which is not what most Croatian people my age can say.

[VintageSlimBish]

There a lot most croation people couldnt say

[SliK]

Feltching

[EminemBase]

Eminem's love for words definitely has had an effect on me...

I always took to English quite naturally and my English teachers liked, and hated the fact I wasted my potential by psychologically torturing them instead of being productive...

So I don't think Em literally created anything in me which wouldn't be there but he certainly made me look closer at words... aside from picking up quite a lot of words from his raps - the biggest influence he's had on me is the power of phrasing; not just which words you use but precisely how you use them and the price choices of using a word HERE instead of there and having a definite purpose of tone or humour. The sense of irony in his prime work is total brilliance.

[Devil'sAdvocate]

scrupulous

[Drax207]

Since I'm not a native English speaker I learnt half of my English vocab from him

[LK5]

One of the reasons why I was the best in my English class and passed the final exam 97%

[SajN]

I learned approximately 52.38% of the English words I know from him.