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For those of you who believe the dictionarys actually definitive. instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/DFW_present_tense.html Did you know that probing the seamy underbelly of U.S. lexicography reveals ideological strife and controversy and intrigue and nastiness and fervor on a nearly hanging-chad scale? For instance, did you know that some modern dictionaries are notoriously liberal and others notoriously conservative, and that certain conservative dictionaries were actually conceived and designed as corrective responses to the corruption and permissiveness of certain liberal dictionaries...? Did you know that U.S. lexicography even had a seamy underbelly? -Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage by David Foster Wallace
Posted on: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 23:08:50 +0000

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