Quotes About Lexicon

Don't hate the word, playa; hate the dictionary.

I've always been in love with language. My favorite book is a dictionary. I have always loved words.

I once tried to read the dictionary. It didn't work.

it's confusing to have a controller and a manager and a driver in the same code base. What is the essential difference between a DeviceManager and a Protocol-Controller? Why are both not controllers or both not managers? Are they both Drivers really? The name leads you to expect two objects that have very different type as well as having different classes. A consistent lexicon is a great boon to the programmers who must use your code.

I just like the feeling of finding the right word in my mind and employing it. I get pleasure from that feeling. I prefer language to gesture. I figured other people might, too.

Ideally my goal is, before I die, to have some information about every word that's ever been used in print.

By 2007, 85% of Americans cited climate change as an important issue, compared with just 33% in prior years. The phrase we invented, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' became a part of the lexicon.

When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'I always pay it extra.

There are many words for push, take, shove, carry, load, and no words for love, or happiness, or the sounds which birds make in the morning.

There's a daughter, but she's not quite right, I believe. Unfortunately she's a bit glaikit." He used the Scots word for mental handicap. It was not a word that many used any more, preferring learning difficulties, the modern euphemism. But there was nothing unkind about glaikit, which survived because the policing of language had not extended to the Scots lexicon.

One of the newer terms in the poly lexicon, relationship anarchy, refers to a lifestyle decision not to take one partner as a "primary" and others as "secondaries" (or any hierarchy of that kind) but instead to maintain each relationship as separate and to make as few rules as possible.

Is there another word for synonym?

The eventual strength of our vocabulary is determined not by the ten thousand common words but by how many rare words we understand.

I'm a massive fan of the dictionary.

According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied.

She kept lists of her favorite words.

besoin et nécessité sont deux synonymes entre lesquels il y a tout un monde d'intervalle.

Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

Dictionary, n. A malevolent literacy device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.

DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.

There are very few good ways to get publicity for a dictionary.

the Greek word literally means 'high city'

it seems to have been only at this time that the word demokratia came to be coined