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This school banned dictionaries because a parent complained that there was a definition for oral sex. No, I’m not joking. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1246266/Dictionary-banned-classrooms-defining-explicit-sex-terms.html
I wanna know why that parent was looking up oral sex in a children’s classroom in the first place.
No words.
Acting responsibly does not come from being uneducated. If parents think words in the dictionary are a bad influence then they should teach their children to make better decisions, not try to hide them from the world.
The kid probably saw the word during class, was talking about it later and the parents overheard. That’s my guess.
Written by rob on January 31st, 2010 with 6 comments.
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Take for example the word "crepe". It is a French word and is pronounced "krep". What kind of moron added the same word to the English dictionary under the pronunciation of "krayp"?
But the english crepe doesn’t have the same meaning as the french one. In french, it means a certain dessert. In american english, it means "I’m an american tourist, feel free to rip me off while giving me a certain dessert", hence the difference in the pronunciation! 
Written by rob on January 17th, 2010 with 1 comment.
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I’m just curious to know who holds the current record for the largest collection of bilingual dictionaries. It’s probably the public library, but I’m just wondering. I have like 15 bilingual dictionaries (or 5, depending on how you’d count a multi-lingual dictionary with ten bilingual dictionaries within it). How *would* you count that? I doubt that I’ve broken the record, but still…thanks!
* What’s the record for the largest collection of bilingual dictionaries? *
Check at the link.
A cursory look shows that The New York Public Library has
(158), not including research categories.
http://catalog.nypl.org/iii/encore/search/C|Sbilingual%20dictionaries?lang=eng&suite=pearl
Written by rob on January 13th, 2010 with 1 comment.
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I was just reading my dictionary, and for marriage it says:
the social institution under which a man and woman establish their decision to live as husband and wife by legal commitments;
the legal or religious ceremony that formalizes the decision of a man and woman to live as husband and wife;
the formal declaration or contract by which act a man and a woman join in wedlock.
Obviously Webster must be a bigot. Are gay activists planning a boycott yet? Will it include all reference materials, or just the "tough parts"?
Kyle – what are you talking about?? Moses married a Cushite thousands of years ago. Where do you do your research?
While I’m thinking about it…Boaz married a Moabite, David a Hittite, Rahab was a Canaanite….I could go on
Kyle – Regardless, I am not seeing that in the dictionary. You are missing my point I think. I just want to make sure I am not referencing bigot materials. Do I need to throw out my dictionary or what?
Changing everything written does not make it honorable. Marriage is between a man and his wife and the only place sex is honored. In any other way it is a sin.
Written by rob on January 4th, 2010 with 7 comments.
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Like say, one word in one dictionary has 2 entries under it, the same word in another dictionary has only 1 entry. The one with two entries is homonymy, the other one is polysemy. But how does one decide which one is correct? What is the difference?
homonymy is present when two words have the same spelling or sound but have different meanings. (homonimia, homo= equal, nomos= names) Examples:
“Fleet” (group of vehicles) and “fleet” (swift), “plane” and “plain,” and the verb “sow” (plant seeds) and the noun “sow” (female swine) are homonyms of three types.
Polysemy is the existence of several meanings for a single word or phrase.(polysemia, poly = many, sema= sign)
For this reason in dictionaries, homonyms are usually presented as different entries, one below the other, while polysemy is presented in numebrs, as a nuances in the meaning.
The creterium is clear although not always respected. When there is uncertainty one of the best ways to differ is looking at the root of words. Homonyms almost always have different linguistic root, while polysemy develops through the interpretation of the same linguistic root. Still this is not absolute, as for example both fleet (naval vehicles) and fleet (swift) have the same root (fleotan = to float, to swim), but are obviouslly things different enough.
Written by rob on January 1st, 2010 with 1 comment.
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I’m a bit confused about what order words should appear in when they have nigori marks. For example, would ??? come before ???
The order is arranged by Japanese alphabet order and ??(daku on – has 2 dots) come before ??(daku ten – has small circle). For example: ???hara)???(bara)???(para). Bara comes right after hara and para comes right after bara. So ??? should come away ahead of ??.
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Written by rob on December 29th, 2009 with 3 comments.
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I have very poor knowledge of softwares.i gonna buy a mobile phone of which i candownload a dictionary. i have 2 options
nokia 6630-which offer S60 dictionary
nokia 6120-which offer S40 dictionary
cn u pls tell me the best 1.
thanx
There’s no such thing as "symbian 60" or "symbian 40". What you’re talking about is S60, a Symbian OS based platform, and Series 40, a Java platform running on top of Nokia OS.
S60 phones are smarphones, thus they are more advanced (and more expensive) than the Series 40 ones. There are many features which are better and bigger on the S60 smartphones.
As for what the dictionaries are concerned, the share size of them could be different, i.e. number of words known. S60 can handle more words than an Series 40 device (more memory available)
Aside from that, the S60 phones are also capable of multitasking.
Written by rob on December 15th, 2009 with 2 comments.
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I tried to find a certain definition of the word flannel, and it didn’t exist according to these far from definitive or comprehensive dictionaries. I found the definition I wanted in a book type dictionary. I shall stick to books in future.
some are, others aren’t.
Written by rob on December 10th, 2009 with 5 comments.
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Written by rob on December 1st, 2009 with no comments.
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I’m sick of it reverted from UK, where I live, to US. Can’t I delete the dictionaries I don’t use?
Thanks for any help!
Just change them…
http://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/infotech/languagesettings.htm
Written by rob on November 30th, 2009 with 2 comments.
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