[New-Poetry] Dictionaires????

[Halvard Johnson]

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On Sep 24, 2008, at 12:19 PM, JforJames at aol.com wrote:

> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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.
>
> Hal
>
> McCain / Palin -- Just say thanks but no thanks.
> They're a bridge to nowhere.
>
> Halvard Johnson
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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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