Tom Morris: 2005-02-11

2005.02.11

Ha ha ha! --TZ

Looks like the furry types are petitioning to get the word "yiff" in the OED. Retards. Words are added to dictionaries when their use is prevalent. You have to consult the dictionary maker to see when words are put in. You can't petition them. They base their decisions on a certain corpus of reading - such as newspapers, magazines and so on. See? Plus lexicographers don't discriminate - they are equal opportunity linguists.

If you want to get a word in to the dictionary (which is a bullshit idea anyway - dictionaries are descriptive examples of language, not normative - the lack of a word in a dictionary does not mean that the word is not a proper word, it just means that it hasn't been put in the dictionary), you have to simply get it in a number of different printed souces. I'd reccomend newspapers and magazines. Writing a petition to OUP will not change anything. Dipshits.

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I am a vegetarian, an atheist, like to code in Ruby and Scala (and Java, but let’s not talk about that), and noodle about with microformats and the Semantic Web.

I have an MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London. My philosophical interests are in analytic metaphysics, ontology, modality, the work of Armstrong, Lewis, Kripke, Russell and Plato. I have a strange, unfulfilled interest in Gadamer’s hermeneutics. I’ve been influenced by Gadamer, by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rawls and Nozick.

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