Where is Seiya?

Where can I look up what dictionary means?
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That's a better question than you might think. Is 'dictionary' a misnomer?

Diction, is all about how to say/ pronounce words or the words that you say or pronounce.

A dictionary is a list of all words, with their meaning/ description, whether you choose to say or pronounce them or not.

So, should a dictionary really be called a Wordary?
 
Diction is just another word from the same root as dictionary, the latin dictio, speaking. So dictionary is not just concerned with pronunciation, it is concerned with speaking, and we use words to speak, so it is the store of speaking/words.
 
The thing I always found interesting about a dictionary is that because it uses words to describe other words it's only useful if you know at least some words. If you didn't know any words at all, it wouldn't help you. So it doesn't really add knowledge so much as it multiplies it.

I think if you want to get the "No Words" crowd you are going to need a video display.

:laugh:
 
Isn't one of the main parts of a dictionary the bit that explains how to pronounce the words it lists?
 
Norie said:
Isn't one of the main parts of a dictionary the bit that explains how to pronounce the words it lists?
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And how would that suggest that dictionary has a meaning based upon pronunciation?
 
Oorang said:
The thing I always found interesting about a dictionary is that because it uses words to describe other words it's only useful if you know at least some words. If you didn't know any words at all, it wouldn't help you. So it doesn't really add knowledge so much as it multiplies it.

I think if you want to get the "No Words" crowd you are going to need a video display.

:laugh:
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In that case, you don't need a dictionary, just a cave!
 
I always use lexicons, so I never run into any of the aforementioned problems.

Alex
 
are we talking about the 'Dictionary' that Seiya use often in code:nervous:
 
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