Егор пишет: ↑03 апр 2020, 00:10
your method - it really should be in the top five of super worst and spookiest methods ever
Hey, did I say it was my freaking method?
You get new words from somewhere, don't you? And I only mentioned the context where I first met that particular one. What gives? For example, the Beatles' Walrus song was the one in which I first heard how that northern marine mammal is called in English. So what? Where's the method you've picked apart?
As for the meaning of "snorkel", I could name the source from which I got its other meaning too, but I'm afraid you wouldn't approve of it as "a method" either, be it "mine" or someone else's, let alone the source I got it from, still less the context:-)
Re the rock opera I gave the link to, believe it or not, but if I hadn't happened to listen to it as a teen, I fear I may not have ever fallen in love with the English language. That is, my interest in it at the very start of learning was in a very close connection with the interest in rock music.
P.S. Btw, are you sure we're not flooding the thread? Maybe it would be better if we PMed each other once in a while?