91 Quotes About Dictionary

وقتی ضعف و انکسار ملت خود را دیدم، دانستم که ما ناگزیریم با سلاح وقت مسلح شویم و آن آموختن تمام علوم امروزی بود، وگرنه ما را جزو ملل وحشی می‌شمردند و برما آقائی را روا می دیدند، و آموختن آن اگر به‌زبان خارجی بود البته میسر نمی‌شد[...] پس بایستی آن علوم و فنون را ما ترجمه کنیم و در دسترس مکاتب بگذاریم و این میسر نمی‌شود جز بدین‌که اول لغات خود را بدانیم و این کار نوشتن لغت‌نامه‌ای شامل و کافل ِ تمام لغات را، لازم داشت. این بود که به‌فکر تدوین لغت‌نامه افتادم.

If the reader needs a dictionary to read your book then the dictionary may turn out to be a more interesting read.

suffuse, v.I don’t like it when you use my shampoo, because then your hair smells like me, not you.

Living with contradiction may be nothing new to humans, but acknowledging it, and accepting it are. Even the dictionary has trouble accepting a paradox, calling it 'two things that seem to be contradictory but may possibly be true.' But that's not a real paradox--a real paradox IS contradictory and IS true. So I don't even call them paradoxes anymore, I call them 'contradictory co-existing realities,' both in direct opposition to each other, both true at the same time.

When I see a dictionary on my desk I feel like I'm looking at some strange dog leaving a twisty piece of poop on our lawn out back.

A single act is worth a thousand thoughts

To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say.

About 35-40% of the time, a player wants to create a word ending in a specific letter. This, however, is not the way we traditionally think, and, not to mention, this is not the way dictionaries are sorted. In other words, in many situations, conventional dictionaries are not arranged in an easy to use manner. This dictionary solves that problem by sorting on the last letter of the word.

You're like a dictionary. You know the word is in there, but you need to know how to spell what you want first