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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Linguistics Studies

New tool to address shortcomings of dictionaires

Would you take a look at this and tell me what you think?

http://www.wordnik.com/
  

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Not interested? Here's the vid with the rational behind wordnik. html

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Not interested?

Here's the vid with the rational behind wordnik.

http://www.ted.com/talks/erin_mckean_redefines_the_dictionary.html
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Sorry, I meant "the rationale".
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AnonymousNot interested?
No, not interested. It doesn't seem like anything particularly useful or revolutionary to me.
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How does it differ from Wiki, M?
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Ok, thanks for the input anyway.
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MrPedanticHow does it differ from Wiki, M?


Not sure. Why would it need to differ?
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The text:

"roughly 99% of everyone I've ever spoken to) believe that the dictionary is a Who's Who of words. That it's like Ivy League college admissions. That only the really good words, the ones that have eaten all their spinach and who play the oboe and who get high scores on the SAT, make it into t
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Anonymousroughly 99% of everyone I've ever spoken to

99% of all the people he has ever spoken to have said that only words that eat their spinach are included in dictionaries?

I am inclined to doubt his arithmetic.

MrP
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Hers, MrP, hers. Did you access the link?
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I had read enough, Anon.

MrP
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