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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2018 13:56:13 GMT -5
Do you think reading comic books increased your vocabulary?
For me yes. Just reading anything in general increases your vocabulary. But when I was a kid reading a novel & there was a word I didn't know I didn't stop to look it up. I figured out the general meaning by the context in that sentence or paragraph.
Comics? I would write words down & look them up later in the dictionary. That was one of the reasons my Mom was OK with comic books. That & back then they encouraged good behavior.
Which brings me to my second question. Did comics influence some of your values growing up? Of course my parents were my guiding influence in shaping my values. But comics reinforced some of my beliefs.
Things like the bad guys need to face justice. Don't be afraid to stand up for what you believe is right. Wearing your underwear on the outside of your clothes is normal. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 9, 2018 14:10:13 GMT -5
The down side was I adopted phrases like " I say thee nay" and sheesh.
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Post by Søren on Feb 9, 2018 14:39:17 GMT -5
Do you think reading comic books increased your vocabulary?Yes. Im dyslexic so just got too frustrated or bored with books as it took me so long to get through a chapter due to needing to re-read it 10+ times to make it stick in my head or the font hurt my eyes. Comics was easier as there was less writing but was still needing to read it and learn new words sometimes many times as forgot them next day lol. Got me to point where I read far more now even if chunky books still scare me  anyway am sure my vocabulary would be less without comics. Did comics influence some of your values growing up?I don't know. Maybe? I don't share many of my parents values so don't think they influence me other then in way that I decided I don't agree with them. I guess made them myself and got some from comics probably because I read the sort of thing that felt connection with.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2018 15:14:30 GMT -5
Not only increases my Vocabulary and all that ... its also increases my Knowledge of the World ...   After seeing this JLA book ... its prompts me and my entire family to Disneyland in the late 60's to see this place in Los Angeles on Vacation. My vocabulary and knowledge of things helps me to wonder about this world that we lived in. As far as Values ... this and all that, its taught me a lot and about the reference that we should do good and rather harm our family, our friends, and most of all - its reflects our character in general. Comics did play a good part of my life and try our best to do good rather evil. Taught me the difference of what is right and what is wrong. That's how ... I see it. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 9, 2018 15:24:36 GMT -5
Absolutely increased my vocabulary.
Absolutely influenced my values. Can't tell you how many antagonists I have cleaved to the shoulder a la Conan.
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Post by shaxper on Feb 9, 2018 15:42:38 GMT -5
As I often lament, by the time I was growing up in the late 1980s, comics weren't accessible to kids anymore. By the time I was able to read and understand comics, I was far less impressionable and the material, while targeted to an older audience, was also less impressive. Most of my teenage vocabulary was influenced by Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar, and most of my life-long morals were influenced by Jean Luc Picard.
Wolfman and Perez's New Teen Titans influenced my perception of friendships to a large extent, but that's about it.
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 9, 2018 15:46:35 GMT -5
Although many people on this forum bash Superman for being the ultimate boy scout, I learned that you do what's right because of him.
Superman is great.
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Post by Søren on Feb 9, 2018 15:55:48 GMT -5
As I often lament, by the time I was growing up in the late 1980s, comics weren't accessible to kids anymore. By the time I was able to read and understand comics, I was far less impressionable and the material, while targeted to an older audience, was also less impressive. Most of my teenage vocabulary was influenced by Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar, and most of my life-long morals were influenced by Jean Luc Picard. Wolfman and Perez's New Teen Titans influenced my perception of friendships to a large extent, but that's about it. He is a wise man. Probably few of my values were influence or just confirmed by Star Trek  |
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Post by badwolf on Feb 9, 2018 15:58:58 GMT -5
Absolutely. When I was young I had a mental list of all the words I remembered learning from comics, but it's long since faded.
I could never be bothered to look things up in a dictionary and always tried to figure them out from context. Usually I got it right.
Values, probably, but can't think of any examples. I feel like I got much of my values from Doctor Who.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 9, 2018 16:07:47 GMT -5
Vocabulary...oh, absolutely.
Values...maybe a bit. Probably moreso that they led me to prose works that really did shape my values. Comics by no means had the effect that To Kill a Mockingbird, Fahrenheit 451 and Behold the Man had.
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Post by brutalis on Feb 9, 2018 16:37:07 GMT -5
Yes to vocabulary and values plus add on awareness of world/culture/sciences. Comics definitely made me curious enough about things to search and delve further into learning or finding out things. I tested out in the 5th grade for a College level reading comprehension score which had my school and the teachers start scurrying to create advance level classes. In high school freshman year again testing showed College levels so was immediately placed into Advance Learning classes which were mostly populate by Junior or Senior students.
It surprised family and teachers whenever I would give definitions or use words that they didn't know how to say or use properly. Thanks to comic books I also developed a strong desire for reading at an early age and that too helped increase my comprehension skills.
Big Thank You to the many writers of Marvel with special thanks to Stan Lee (yes i say excelsior too much and yay verily forsooth I doth speakest in Thor), Roy Thomas (by Crom!), Don McGregor, Steve Englehart, Doug Moench, MArv Wolfman, Chris Claremont and others.
DC writers inspired my interest in science and history sparked by the likes of John Broome, Gardner F. Fox, Bob Haney, Robert Kanigher and others.
Once I discovered them Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard also became part of my jargon and vocabulary.
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Post by shaxper on Feb 9, 2018 16:41:53 GMT -5
Comics by no means had the effect that To Kill a Mockingbird, Fahrenheit 451 and Behold the Man had. Atticus Finch had probably the most profound influence on who I am and what I stand for than anyone else, real or fictional. That's also why I refuse to read Go Set A Watchman. #notmyatticus |
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Post by badwolf on Feb 9, 2018 17:39:31 GMT -5
Values...maybe a bit. Probably moreso that they led me to prose works that really did shape my values. Comics by no means had the effect that To Kill a Mockingbird, Fahrenheit 451 and Behold the Man had. I just read F451 for the first time recently...if there was ever a more important book for people to right now... |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Feb 9, 2018 17:56:45 GMT -5
It was probably comics that inspired my interest in words at a very young age. I recall encountering words like "ignominious," "anathema," "panacea," "cretin," "misanthrope," etc. for the first time in Marvel comics. Occasionally I would be misled. One of the Marvel writer/editors conflated "penultimate" with "ultimate" more than once, and it took me some time to shake that off.
Being a voracious reader, I consumed much, much more than just comics. My parents (also obsessive readers) wouldn't allow me to see films like Jaws, The Exorcist, or Helter Skelter when they were new, but they apparently saw nothing wrong with my reading those novels between the ages of 10 - 13. Talk about increasing your "Word Power"!
As for influencing my values, that's a bit trickier. I definitely identified with Spider-Man and the idea of self-sacrifice, along with using your abilities to help others, but my values didn't really develop into anything articulable until well into adulthood. And they are still evolving (I hope). It was likely an aggregate development that included comics, but not as a determining factor, more like one tiny star in a constellation of influences.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Feb 9, 2018 19:01:27 GMT -5
Oh yeah. I learned the word "Molecule" from a Marvel's Greatest Comics reprint of Fantastic Four # 20.
I'm not sure if comics shaped my values as a child (They absolutely did as an adult!)
But I definitely think they should. I think that stuff like the Punisher is just moronic, nihilistic hogwash* ferinstance.
* Barring the Ennis stuff..
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anyway am sure my vocabulary would be less without comics.
