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My Arabic is reduced by now to wielding a dictionary, so I took four well-known translations and decided to read them side by side, verse by verse, along with a transliteration and the original seventh-century Arabic.
Now the word "tolerance," if you look at it in the dictionary, connotes "allowing," "indulging" and "enduring."
Honestly, I didn't know what the word "sequelae" meant, so I went to the dictionary, and it meant "because of."
Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary.
You know, in a dictionary?
The dictionary is not carved out of a piece of granite, out of a lump of rock.
Now, one of the non-perks of being a lexicographer is that people don't usually have a kind of warm, fuzzy, snuggly image of the dictionary.
But what people really often think about the dictionary is, they think more like this.
But people think that my job is to let the good words make that difficult left-hand turn into the dictionary, and keep the bad words out.
Our idea of what a dictionary is has not changed since her reign.
And so, James Murray could get a job on any dictionary today.
Because what a dictionary is, is it's Victorian design merged with a little bit of modern propulsion.
When they find a word that's not in the dictionary, they think, "This must be a bad word."
Why? It's more likely to be a bad dictionary.
But the book is not the best shape for the dictionary.
You know, there're still going to be paper dictionaries, but it's not going to be the dominant dictionary.
The book-shaped dictionary is not going to be the only shape dictionaries come in.
Being in the dictionary is an artificial distinction.
If only one out of every 10 of those books had a word that's not in the dictionary in it, that would be equivalent to more than two unabridged dictionaries.
If we think of the dictionary as being the map of the English language, these bright spots are what we know about, and the dark spots are where we are in the dark.
So, this whole time I've been saying, "The dictionary, the dictionary, the dictionary, the dictionary."
Not "a dictionary," or "dictionaries."
And that's because, well, people use the dictionary to stand for the whole language.
But the thing is, we could make the dictionary the whole language.
I want him to think of this kind of dictionary as an eight-track tape.
The French Academy has two main tasks: it compiles a dictionary of official French.
In my broken English, and with a dictionary, I explained the situation, and without hesitating, the man went to the ATM, and he paid the rest of the money for my family, and two other North Koreans to get out of jail.
So most of you think of Google as something that lets you look up a web page, but it is also a dictionary.
If we go to the dictionary, it says, "It's the lower extremity of a leg that is in direct contact with the ground in standing or walking" That's the traditional definition.
It is now an official word in the dictionary.
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