James
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There's a hilairious Dilbert cartoon on this subject, but it makes fun of Microsoft instead.time said:
article by Woody Harrelson; his take on Iraq & war.
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I can see we're likely to violently disagree on this Tea, but IMO, the various Macquarie dictionaries are a collective abomination that compromise the integrity of the English language. From legitimization of slang to completely inadequate or flat-out misleading word descriptions, they're not the worst English dictionaries ever compiled, but I happen to think they are a national embarrassment. As a rule of thumb, I find Oxford, Collins and Webster to all be superior.
Macquarie is a dirty little empire doing their best to steer a country of just 20 million people off the rails of international language consistency. By all means let them continue with their pop-culture dictionaries of slang - it sells - but like many schools I don't believe they are the worthy guardians that they purport to be.
It would probably help if they could get even the slang right. Just what do you think our former PM meant when he said that Australia was "the arse end of the world"? Ironically, his warning could have been directed at Macquarie.
Macquarie is a dirty little empire doing their best to steer a country of just 20 million people off the rails of international language consistency. By all means let them continue with their pop-culture dictionaries of slang - it sells - but like many schools I don't believe they are the worthy guardians that they purport to be.
It would probably help if they could get even the slang right. Just what do you think our former PM meant when he said that Australia was "the arse end of the world"? Ironically, his warning could have been directed at Macquarie.
Tea
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I've never paid all that much personal attention to the Macquarie, Time. I own one, but I rarely use it, preffering the Oxford as my primary dictionary. (I nearly bought a fair-dinkum Shorter Oxford just before the GST on books came in. I should have done, damn it.) I sometimes run an aquisitive eye over my parents' OED but while I could live with the expense, I'm not sure that I like the idea of having to deal with that many volumes. Even the two-volume Shorter Oxford is a bit much.
I have no problem with the "legitimisation" of slang. It is not the function of the lexicologist to define language and set rules, merely to report it as accurately as possible. It is the job of the lexicologist to record slang, just as it is his job to record all other instances of language.
As for innacurate definitions, I'm not aware of any (being mostly an Oxford user), but I'd be most interested to see some examples so as to have some evidence on which to make up my mind.
I have no problem with the "legitimisation" of slang. It is not the function of the lexicologist to define language and set rules, merely to report it as accurately as possible. It is the job of the lexicologist to record slang, just as it is his job to record all other instances of language.
As for innacurate definitions, I'm not aware of any (being mostly an Oxford user), but I'd be most interested to see some examples so as to have some evidence on which to make up my mind.
Tea
Storage? I am Storage!
I have now decided that my previouz post waz in error. From thiz moment on, I zhall alwayz prefer the letter "z" to the letter "z". Truly, Englizh iz the mozt ridiculouz language, iz it not?