[New-Poetry] Dictionaires????

[Halvard Johnson]

Instant. Anyway, instant if the place isn't closed.

Hal

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On Sep 24, 2008, at 2:14 PM, Anny Ballardini wrote:

> 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--
>
> http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4258/337/1600/IMG_3026.jpg
>
> Hal
>
> McCain / Palin -- Just say thanks but no thanks.
> They're a bridge to nowhere.
>
> Halvard Johnson
> ================
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> halvard at gmail.com
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> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
> http://www.hamiltonstone.org
> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html
>
>
>
> 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
>> ================
>> halvard at earthlink.net
>> halvard at gmail.com
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/index.html
>> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
>> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
>> http://www.hamiltonstone.org
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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