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In a world where words are often mere amusement, it is imperative to forge a new dictionary that enlightens the masses on the true worth of spoken words. For those who underestimate its power, fail to realize the energy they emit and the consequences they yield. What we give with our words, we receive - a universal balance that demands understanding and respect. – Yvonne Padmos	added by Freelancer 2 months ago
I finally found True Love . . . in the dictionary. – TommyZegan	added by TommyZegan 1 year ago
The' messenger RNA vaccine' was new to me, I had never heard of it, and unless you were a research scientist, you probably haven't, therefore, Oxford English Dictionary didn't even cover a definition. – Peter Sokolowski	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Unless FCPS is using a different dictionary, pedophilia means adults having sex with children, and that is precisely what is being depicted in the particular panel in Gender Queer, you guys in the press have been in a quandary since you can’t broadcast the images because it violates FCC regulations. – Stacy Langton	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Sometimes United States just for fun, perhaps these lighter slang and pop culture newcomers to our dictionary reflect another important aspect of our time -- a cautious optimism and a brighter mood about the future ahead after a trying 2020. – John Kelly	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the description of a dancing lady – Shah Asad Rizvi	added by shahasadrizvi 2 years ago
If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the description of a dancing lady – Shah Asad Rizvi	added by shahasadrizvi 2 years ago
The tweet by the Washington Redskins rings hollow to me. If the team was really interested in standing in solidarity for racial justice, they would change their name from the dictionary-defined racial slur they continue to use. As an indigenous person, I feel their tweet comes off as tone-deaf, not woke. Violence comes in many forms, some more subtle than others. Indigenous Peoples are not your mascots. – Roberto Mukaro Borrero	added by oirrc 3 years ago
Facts are not science - as dictionary is not literature. – Martin H. Fischer	added by anonymous 4 years ago
There was a dictionary on the table, and they were like,' I wonder how many different words it would take to build a system using words,'. – Giles Jones	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The girl quoting the definitions before (pronouncer Jacques) Bailly said them stated the usage note from our unabridged dictionary verbatim. ... Its a very specific kind of writing that we do. I thought, Oh my goodness, this 13-year-old girl is quoting our dictionary back to us, these spellers as a group simply were unusually gifted. They may indicate that we have entered a new era of competition. – Peter Sokolowski	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Notes To Self: 1.The falling of autumn leaves is not your fault. 2.Stop piling candles for decoration. They are meant to be burnt. 3.Silence has a voice of its own. Listen to your own silence. 4.A piece of advice from a divorced and a formerly political prisoner: “to be successful, avoid two things: women and politics!” 5.A semi-colon is the middle finger in a sentence when writing fiction. 6.Be sadist when you write. Good things come out of your character only when bad things happen to them. 7.A comedian once said: if you are looking for sympathy in life, you will only find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis. 8.No expectations. Just instincts. 9.Undergraduate degrees of creative writing are rubbish. They are vehicles of producing mass ignorance. Because if undergraduates want to become writers, they have to spend their twenties reading excessively first. 10.Every time you get rejected by a publisher, be thankful. It is a boost for your ego to keep going forward. It is a second chance to reflect, write, and edit. It is a rebirth. It is similar to being given the question-sheet in an exam to revisit your answers before you submit your paper. 11.You are fake and hypocritical when you write for fame or political purpose. These are exterior. Honest and free writing is interior: that is when you write for yourself. 12.Mark things in green. It is the colour of grace, hope and nature. Red is bloody and fascist. 13.Reason, not need. - King Lear 14.Your body is roughly 72 per cent water. Keep hydrated. 15.Read alone. Write alone. Eat accompanied. 16.Do not drive all the time. Cycle when possible. 17.More radio. Less TV. 18.Read more. Write less. Writing comes later. 19.Sing to a mirror. 20.Re-paint your walls. 21.Read an article or summarise a short story a day. 22.Learn a new word a day too. 23.Become drunk with poetry. 24.Watch foreign films. 25.Buy mother a piece of jewellery with first salary. 26.Publish a book before you are 30. 27.Practice poetry. For fun. 28.Have a tattoo you will regret. 29.Put that bloody mobile phone down! Do not become a machine driven by machines! 30.Speak less. Listen more. – Akram Al Deek	added by anonymous 5 years ago
For a living language, the only constant is change, official Scrabble Players Dictionary evolves to keep up with English as Official Scrabble Players Dictionary is used today. – Peter Sokolowski	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It turned out that over 80 per cent of the words were in a Hebrew dictionary, but we didn’t know if they made sense together. – Greg Kondrak	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The word feminism was being use in a kind of general way, the feminism of this big protest, but it was also used in a kind of specific way: What does it mean to be a feminist in 2017? Those kinds of questions are the kinds of things, I think, that send people to the dictionary. – Peter Sokolowski	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We had no idea he was the original dictionary source of feminism. We don’t have a lot of evidence of what he was looking at. – Peter Sokolowski	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Nothing projects intelligence quite like confidence. When you believe in yourself, it shows, and research shows that believing in yourself improves your performance on cognitive tasks. Self-doubt, on the other hand, impairs your performance. What’s worse is that other people pick up on this doubt, which makes you appear less intelligent to them. If you want people to believe in you, you have to believe in yourself. If you’re really smart, you should n’t have to use big words to broadcast it. True intelligence speaks for itself, so you don’t have to show off your impressive vocabulary. In addition, you always run the chance of being wrong. Using a big word incorrectly makes you look, well, not so smart. So, if you want to appear more intelligent, stop studying the dictionary and just focus on communicating effectively. Related : 8 Great Tricks for Reading People's Body Language Communication expert Leonard Mlodinow makes the case that even if two people say exactly the same thing, the one who says it most expressively will be perceived as being smarter. If two speakers utter exactly the same words, but one speaks a little faster and louder and with fewer pauses and greater variation in volume, that speaker will be judged to be more energetic, knowledgeable, and intelligent. – Leonard Mlodinow	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
They were yelling. I think the only words they know in the dictionary are profanity. – Cheryl McDonald	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
For Scrabble, there is a dictionary of words without their meanings, it's most likely that he's wired differently; he doesn't even study the pages word by word. He can look at a page full of words and absorb them all. – Liz Fagerlund	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. – Italo Calvino	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary; but you and I know what a Jew is -- One Who Killed Our Lord. And although there should be a statute of limitations for that crime, it seems that those who neither have the actions nor the gait of Christians, pagan or not, will bust us out, unrelenting dues, for another deuce. – Lenny Bruce	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know? – Steven Wright	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper. – Tom Robbins	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. – Nathaniel Hawthorne	added by anonymous 13 years ago

In a world where words are often mere amusement, it is imperative to forge a new dictionary that enlightens the masses on the true worth of spoken words. For those who underestimate its power, fail to realize the energy they emit and the consequences they yield. What we give with our words, we receive - a universal balance that demands understanding and respect.

– Yvonne Padmos

added by Freelancer
2 months ago

I finally found True Love . . . in the dictionary.

– TommyZegan

added by TommyZegan
1 year ago

The' messenger RNA vaccine' was new to me, I had never heard of it, and unless you were a research scientist, you probably haven't, therefore, Oxford English Dictionary didn't even cover a definition.

– Peter Sokolowski

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Unless FCPS is using a different dictionary, pedophilia means adults having sex with children, and that is precisely what is being depicted in the particular panel in Gender Queer, you guys in the press have been in a quandary since you can’t broadcast the images because it violates FCC regulations.

– Stacy Langton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Sometimes United States just for fun, perhaps these lighter slang and pop culture newcomers to our dictionary reflect another important aspect of our time -- a cautious optimism and a brighter mood about the future ahead after a trying 2020.

– John Kelly

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the description of a dancing lady

– Shah Asad Rizvi

added by shahasadrizvi
2 years ago

If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the description of a dancing lady

– Shah Asad Rizvi

added by shahasadrizvi
2 years ago

The tweet by the Washington Redskins rings hollow to me. If the team was really interested in standing in solidarity for racial justice, they would change their name from the dictionary-defined racial slur they continue to use. As an indigenous person, I feel their tweet comes off as tone-deaf, not woke. Violence comes in many forms, some more subtle than others. Indigenous Peoples are not your mascots.

– Roberto Mukaro Borrero

added by oirrc
3 years ago

Facts are not science - as dictionary is not literature.

– Martin H. Fischer

added by anonymous
4 years ago

There was a dictionary on the table, and they were like,' I wonder how many different words it would take to build a system using words,'.

– Giles Jones

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The girl quoting the definitions before (pronouncer Jacques) Bailly said them stated the usage note from our unabridged dictionary verbatim. ... Its a very specific kind of writing that we do. I thought, Oh my goodness, this 13-year-old girl is quoting our dictionary back to us, these spellers as a group simply were unusually gifted. They may indicate that we have entered a new era of competition.

– Peter Sokolowski

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Notes To Self: 1.The falling of autumn leaves is not your fault. 2.Stop piling candles for decoration. They are meant to be burnt. 3.Silence has a voice of its own. Listen to your own silence. 4.A piece of advice from a divorced and a formerly political prisoner: “to be successful, avoid two things: women and politics!” 5.A semi-colon is the middle finger in a sentence when writing fiction. 6.Be sadist when you write. Good things come out of your character only when bad things happen to them. 7.A comedian once said: if you are looking for sympathy in life, you will only find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis. 8.No expectations. Just instincts. 9.Undergraduate degrees of creative writing are rubbish. They are vehicles of producing mass ignorance. Because if undergraduates want to become writers, they have to spend their twenties reading excessively first. 10.Every time you get rejected by a publisher, be thankful. It is a boost for your ego to keep going forward. It is a second chance to reflect, write, and edit. It is a rebirth. It is similar to being given the question-sheet in an exam to revisit your answers before you submit your paper. 11.You are fake and hypocritical when you write for fame or political purpose. These are exterior. Honest and free writing is interior: that is when you write for yourself. 12.Mark things in green. It is the colour of grace, hope and nature. Red is bloody and fascist. 13.Reason, not need. - King Lear 14.Your body is roughly 72 per cent water. Keep hydrated. 15.Read alone. Write alone. Eat accompanied. 16.Do not drive all the time. Cycle when possible. 17.More radio. Less TV. 18.Read more. Write less. Writing comes later. 19.Sing to a mirror. 20.Re-paint your walls. 21.Read an article or summarise a short story a day. 22.Learn a new word a day too. 23.Become drunk with poetry. 24.Watch foreign films. 25.Buy mother a piece of jewellery with first salary. 26.Publish a book before you are 30. 27.Practice poetry. For fun. 28.Have a tattoo you will regret. 29.Put that bloody mobile phone down! Do not become a machine driven by machines! 30.Speak less. Listen more.

– Akram Al Deek

added by anonymous
5 years ago

For a living language, the only constant is change, official Scrabble Players Dictionary evolves to keep up with English as Official Scrabble Players Dictionary is used today.

– Peter Sokolowski

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It turned out that over 80 per cent of the words were in a Hebrew dictionary, but we didn’t know if they made sense together.

– Greg Kondrak

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The word feminism was being use in a kind of general way, the feminism of this big protest, but it was also used in a kind of specific way: What does it mean to be a feminist in 2017? Those kinds of questions are the kinds of things, I think, that send people to the dictionary.

– Peter Sokolowski

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We had no idea he was the original dictionary source of feminism. We don’t have a lot of evidence of what he was looking at.

– Peter Sokolowski

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Nothing projects intelligence quite like confidence. When you believe in yourself, it shows, and research shows that believing in yourself improves your performance on cognitive tasks. Self-doubt, on the other hand, impairs your performance. What’s worse is that other people pick up on this doubt, which makes you appear less intelligent to them. If you want people to believe in you, you have to believe in yourself. If you’re really smart, you should n’t have to use big words to broadcast it. True intelligence speaks for itself, so you don’t have to show off your impressive vocabulary. In addition, you always run the chance of being wrong. Using a big word incorrectly makes you look, well, not so smart. So, if you want to appear more intelligent, stop studying the dictionary and just focus on communicating effectively. Related : 8 Great Tricks for Reading People's Body Language Communication expert Leonard Mlodinow makes the case that even if two people say exactly the same thing, the one who says it most expressively will be perceived as being smarter. If two speakers utter exactly the same words, but one speaks a little faster and louder and with fewer pauses and greater variation in volume, that speaker will be judged to be more energetic, knowledgeable, and intelligent.

– Leonard Mlodinow

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

They were yelling. I think the only words they know in the dictionary are profanity.

– Cheryl McDonald

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

For Scrabble, there is a dictionary of words without their meanings, it's most likely that he's wired differently; he doesn't even study the pages word by word. He can look at a page full of words and absorb them all.

– Liz Fagerlund

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.

– Italo Calvino

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary; but you and I know what a Jew is -- One Who Killed Our Lord. And although there should be a statute of limitations for that crime, it seems that those who neither have the actions nor the gait of Christians, pagan or not, will bust us out, unrelenting dues, for another deuce.

– Lenny Bruce

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know?

– Steven Wright

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.

– Tom Robbins

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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