[New-Poetry] Dictionaires????

[jforjames at aol.com]

Hal,
yes, hyperlinks ensure I get randomness and sidetracking in my e-diet, every day.?And I probably get exposed to thousands?of unusual words (sic transit gloria mundi) in a year's time.??
But it's not the same experience you?get fumbling through pages of a?dictionary. I think in those analog encounters I take more time with the odd?entry, looking over the subdefintions, and forms of the word, roots, etymology, etc. 99 out of 100 times I Google for a 'quick defintion', I get it and get out. But I feel there is something lacking in that instant gratification. Call me a backsliding Luddite, but I'm starting to make a more conscious effort to reach for the cumbersome unabridged dictionary that was for a time?gathering dust on the shelf behind my screen.
Finnegan

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From: Halvard Johnson <halvard at earthlink.net>
Sent: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:44 am
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Dictionaires????


Finnegan, you're sounding like someone who's never gone
web-surfing. Losing randomness? Losing sidetracking? No way.




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On Sep 23, 2008, at 1:40 PM, 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.?
Finnegan

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