We will remove content that contains abusive, vulgar, offensive, racist, threatening or harassing content. Also the place to discuss and post your photography ventures and queries. I open its pages and it's like being on the receiving end of one of those long transatlantic phone calls from the years before Skype. We will remove content that is clearly off-topic. Home Theaters and Photography (5 Viewing) Discussion forum for Home Theater enthusiasts and newbies. This is as much a way of being as it is a dictionary - it's a private guide to what a certain individual finds noteworthy and worth preserving. But a dictionary that's the work of a single person is going to be something very special. The professor would write in huge red ink: Art, every one of your papers veers off topic and ends up discussing life on Mars. All dictionaries are wilful and secretly partisan - you can't really have language and definitions without this stuff. And my favourite? The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Words, by George Stone Saussy III.Ĭheck that last part. If you describe something that someone says or writes as off topic, you mean that it is not relevant to the current discussion used especially of discussions. Spread out: I have a Who's Who in Ancient Egypt which is pretty well thumbed. Ditto a dictionary of historical terms, a dictionary of etymology. Off Topic Justin Carpenter, Michael Facundo, and Nate Donley Religion & Spirituality 4. Do you have a Rhyming Dictionary? You must get one - it's a life-changer, a kind stranger, a park ranger. Off Topic on Apple Podcasts 17 episodes Honest conversations on life, faith, and culture. This is particularly true of the dictionaries I love best: speciality dictionaries.
I am unable to escape their gravity - I open the book to look up one thing, and then something else draws my eye, and that leads to something else, and something else. In truth, I was born old and tedious, and I have loved dictionaries forever. I wish I could tell you that the older and more tedious I get the more I see the appeal of dictionaries.
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