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The Last Real American Dictionary
- bryanrasmussen 4y agoThe antiwordling of the public discourse indicated by the death of dictionaries only encourages lazy onomatopoets in their phonemerie.
- b112 4y agoJust who the hell do you think you are, to say such things!!!
- mattigames 4y agoWow, knock it off, I didn't click this link to be wooed!
- dmitriid 4y agoIt's not just America, and English. There used to be (sometimes rather insane) niche dictionaries like reverse dictionaries, specific terminology dictionaries, hyper-specific ones like "A dictionary of "Names for inhabitants"[1] that catalogued 6000 local/specific names for people of different places and so on. Some of them have moved online, but more often than not they are maintained by people who just collected some words on a page (like all the "chose the name for your baby, 10 000 names" lists) with no system or context. And the world is ever so slightly worse off because of this. [1] Yup. Published in the USSR. See for yourself here, in Russian: https://www.booksite.ru/fulltext/slovnazvanii/text.pdf https://www.booksite.ru/fulltext/slovnazvanii/text.pdf This stems from the fact that it's not immediately obvious how to form a proper adjective from a place name in Russian
- bitxbitxbitcoin 4y agoPlaying Scrabble and using the Urban Dictionary as the official dictionary is a fun time.