Archive for 12 October 2007

Dictionaries

Posted: 12 October 2007 in Uncategorized
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I find myself using dictionaries a lot. Because I generally subscribe to the view of language as a fluid construct embedded in the mind of individuals and as an emergent phenomenon of a group of speakers, I don’t believe dictionaries are the final arbiters of correct word usage. In high school, things were different. I [...]