There used to be a word for it
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Any modern language is a mirror of the population that use that language, and it'll change as the population changes whether people like it or not; nothing anybody can do about that. This is especially true of English as it is essentially the global lingua franca.
I remember all the fuss in the fifties and sixties about us young 'uns using a myriad of words like cool, guy, chick etc. These and many more are now in common use and the language is none the poorer for that. As has been
said above, none of this means that the older words and forms of usage have to be dismissed, though.
I remember all the fuss in the fifties and sixties about us young 'uns using a myriad of words like cool, guy, chick etc. These and many more are now in common use and the language is none the poorer for that. As has been
said above, none of this means that the older words and forms of usage have to be dismissed, though.
Though I had an initial resistance to he likes of a Kindle th hav grown on me. I love books, live surounded by then. Love the feel and smell of them. But they are heavy and cost to produce. (Something I found out last year when trying to get one printed up).
Expecting a kid (it was a junior edition) to haul around a massive tome is pretty unrealistic. So limiting is size and content due to size and cost makes sense. Is it only the printed version that's had some pruning done? An electronic version can be more expansive as it's cheaper to produce and lighter to carry.
Some of the big dictionarys are truely huge and great fun to read through.
But it is handy having an electronic lookup on decives for that word that you can't quite figure out from context.
You also get specialised dictionaries for certain subjects as there would be little of no point including the terms for general use as they as so specialised.
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Expecting a kid (it was a junior edition) to haul around a massive tome is pretty unrealistic. So limiting is size and content due to size and cost makes sense. Is it only the printed version that's had some pruning done? An electronic version can be more expansive as it's cheaper to produce and lighter to carry.
Some of the big dictionarys are truely huge and great fun to read through.
But it is handy having an electronic lookup on decives for that word that you can't quite figure out from context.
You also get specialised dictionaries for certain subjects as there would be little of no point including the terms for general use as they as so specialised.
Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.
