Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
My desk is like a ‘U,’ so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spanish and I live in English.
I speak from the heart. Certain people follow lyricists and people that put words on a dictionary together, and this and that. I’m more of a rapper that speaks how I feel. I just tell it how it is.
As far as I’m concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary.
People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.
Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries – eventually – reflect popular choices.
I’m very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.
I’ve been obsessed with words since I was a little girl, and I am fortunate that each week as resident word expert on ‘Countdown’ I am ideally placed to quiz my guests in dictionary corner about the words and phrases they use.
The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster’s International Dictionary.
Mainstream dictionary definitions reduce racism to racial prejudice and the personal actions that result. But this definition does little to explain how racial hierarchies are consistently reproduced.
I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary’s definition of nerd: ‘one whose IQ exceeds his weight’. I’m also keen on the same Urban Dictionary’s definition of geek: ‘the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult’. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.
I spoke Spanish when I was three, and then Maltese. I love dictionaries. I like foreigners. My dad moved every year before I was 14, and I learnt to like abroad. I’m not scared of change.
If you look in the dictionary under ‘perfectionist,’ you see Henry Selick correcting the definition of perfectionist in the dictionary. I mean, he is so meticulous.
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