One of the questions I hear most often regarding my plan to read the OED from cover to cover is "Why don't you just read it on the computer?" I usually respond as if the questions was "Why don't you just slump yourself on the couch and watch TV for the year?" which is not quite an appropriate reponse. It is not so much that I am anicomputer; I am resolutely and stubbornly pro-book.
Ammon Shea. . .what does the computer know of the comforting weight of a book in one's lap? Or of the excitement that comes from finding a set of books, dusty and tucked away in the back corner of some store? The computer can only reproduce the information in a book, and never the joyful experience of reading it.
Ammon SheaI find myself subject to the entire range of emotions and reactions that a great book will call forth from its reader. I chuckle, laugh out loud, smile wistfully, cringe, widen my eyes in surprise, and even feel sadness--all from the neatly ordered rows of words and their explanations. All of the human emotions and experiences are right here in this dictionary, just as they would be in any fine work of literature. They just happen to be alphabetized.
Ammon SheaCharientism (n.) A rhetorical term to describe saying a disagreeable thing in an agreeable way.
If I knew how to say disagreeable things in an agreeable fashion I most likely would not be spending most of my time siting alone in a room, reading the dictionary.
Mots clés humor
Telephone books are, like dictionaries, already out of date the moment they are printed....
Ammon SheaMots clés dictionary phone-book telephone-directory
...Zachary winched a few more letters onto his last name and declared himself king of the Z aficionados.
Ammon SheaMots clés phone-book z
For the benefit of those half-dozen people who will see a name like Gwillim and put this book down in order to go look it up to see where it comes from — it is the Welsh version of William
Ammon SheaMots clés names wales phone-book
[U]se extreme caution, and please remember that 451 degrees Fahrenheit is more than just a book a title....
Ammon SheaMots clés phone-book strongman
All of the human emotions and experiences are right there in this dictionary, just as they would be in any fine work of literature. They just happen to be alphabetized.
Ammon SheaThere can be funny moments during sad stories
Ammon SheaMots clés humor-books
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