[New-Poetry] Dictionaires????

[James Cervantes]

Meant to write: goes one better, in that not only does one come across words
at random, but the words themselves are randomly generated.  No qualitative
distinction meant.
-Jim

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:25 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

> Not better. I'd say 'different'.
> Finnegan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Cervantes <cervantes.james at gmail.com>
> Sent: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 3:51 pm
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Dictionaires????
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>
>
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:40 AM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> At the risk of old-fogeyism, I want to mourn the declining use of the
>> print dictionary (or encyclopedia, for that matter).
>> Nine times out of ten, flipping thru pages, trying to find the
>> particular word/entry I was looking for (and sometimes the
>> alphabetic sequence would escape me), I'd stumble across a strange or
>> unusual word (a new world, one might say).
>> You lose some of that randomness, the sidetracking that goes on, with
>> the online versions.
>>
>
>  Well,this site does that one better:
>
>  http://www.fourteenminutes.com/fun/words/
>
>
> -- Jim
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