[New-Poetry] Dictionaires????

[Anny Ballardini]

what kind of gratification is there to be received?

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Halvard Johnson <halvard at earthlink.net>wrote:

> Low on instant gratification? Click here--
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> Hal
>
> McCain / Palin -- Just say thanks but no thanks.
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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????
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> 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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> http://www.hamiltonstone.org
> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html<http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ehalvard/vidalocabooks.html>
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>
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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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