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Author: WaterBlap

Jun 19th 2014 at 7:26:31 AM

I hope nobody minds, but I just thought the description could use a thesaurus ([[DontExplainTheJoke this being about...]]).

I added ChildProdigy and TeenGenius and Dan's suggestions for comparisons.  Also, I added quotation marks around "the" before dictionary because there isn't just one dictionary (same with encyclopedias).

Please note that this is just a suggestion.

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How do you prove that you are well-read, literate, learned, or simply incredibly obsessive?  By making the claim that you have read "the" dictionary (or an encyclopedia) cover-to-cover, of course!  Depending on your age, this may be all you need to convince people that you are a ChildProdigy or TeenGenius.

The idea behind this trope is that anyone who would take the time and energy to read something as humdrum as a dictionary must care a great deal about knowledge and learning... or be slightly insane (or both).  For bonus points, this character may ''memorize'' the dictionary rather than just reading it.

Compare TaughtByTelevision and SawItInAMovieOnce.  See also {{Bookworm}}, ChildProdigy, and TeenGenius.