Sorry, but I have to pick up TED again. I think this talk by Erin McKean is worthwhile to listen to for all of you who are working with language. I myself spend a lot of my time writing. Words are the tools I use daily, and in this moment while I just used the word tool, I am aware of the fact that this is not the right term. Because a tool for me is rigid, words are living creatures within a context, they express a way of thinking, they are embedded into real life.
Dictionaries don’t take this into consideration, they isolate words, and they overrule us with their authority. Dictionaries, so Erin McKean are outdated, they are inapt to fullfil their task. With wordnik Erin McKean launches a dictionary that is not a dictionary 😉 ! To me it seems like an organism alive and multifaceted. I love it, and the presentation Erin gave on TED I love it too. It is intelligent and it has got the sense of humour I adore.
