{"id":1894,"date":"2009-06-09T10:48:28","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T09:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/180.211.110.195:8082\/biestmilch\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:27:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T09:27:56","slug":"new-online-dictionary-gorgeous-revolutionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/09\/new-online-dictionary-gorgeous-revolutionary\/","title":{"rendered":"New online dictionary: gorgeous revolutionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, but I have to pick up TED again. I think this talk by <a title=\"TED talk\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/2009\/06\/erin_mckean_lau.php\">Erin McKean<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/wordnik.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1897\" title=\"wordnik\" alt=\"wordnik\" src=\"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/wordnik.png\" width=\"405\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dictionaries don&#8217;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 Dictionaries, so Erin McKean are outdated, they are inapt to fullfil their task.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 <a title=\"gorgeous wordnik\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wordnik.com\/words\/gorgeous\">wordnik<\/a> Erin McKean launches a dictionary that is not a dictionary \ud83d\ude09 ! 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/view\/id\/161\">Here the link to the talk of Erin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2294],"tags":[661,660,63,659],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5857,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions\/5857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}