I was
reading the article “Dictionaries are not democratic” and I loved it because I
completely disagree with J. Green’s view causing me to write this post to
reject all his points.
Jonathon Green
fails to realise one very important thing: it is the users of language that
determine the definitions of words, not lexicographers. Language is fluid, lexicographers
just record the up of a point of a term.
Dog-eared
dictionaries and old e-dictionaries were not democratic, but the truth is actually
the opposite: the internet and search engines enables us to search the corpus
for ourselves, to observe any particular word, collocation, or phrase in
context, and this is often a better method than the dictionary.
Moreover, I
find it revolutionary, and democratic that people, word lovers like me, are
dedicating themselves to recording, forming and promoting neologisms. In the
past years, since I opened this blog, I have seen an impressive number of
websites and blogs devoted to neologisms. Just take a look to the list on my blog
(under Lexistars) and to the Twittersfere.
This said,
Collins site is very nicely designed, appealing and cool, I like its crowdsourcing
soul and I think it is the way forward for online lexicography and
terminology platforms.
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