Sentences with phrase «as lexicographer»
Their use is loaded with meaning, and it's part of our job as lexicographers to capture this meaning as best we can.»
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Instead, the Word of the Year is chosen because, in the opinion of Oxford Dictionaries» lexicographers and consultants, it is «judged to reflect the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of that particular year and to have lasting potential as a word of cultural significance.»
But even if the Word of the Year quickly fades into obscurity — actually, particularly if it does — the fact that it was selected in the first place captures a distinct moment in our culture as reflected through a group of lexicographers and dictionary consultants.
The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine whose etymology is given by Arab lexicographers as deriving from the verb qahiya, «to lack hunger», in reference to the drink's reputation as an appetite suppressant.
The internet has enabled dictionaries to expand far beyond the limitations of print books — you no longer have to worry about things line breaks or page counts — but it also pushes lexicographers to work faster even as it completely upends the business side of things.
I think when lexicographers define selfish to mean; «a chief concern for ones own interest, especially with disregard for others» they have created a contradiction as having disregard for others is not in my best interest, and I see no evidence, even for the misanthropic, that disregard for others is in anyone else's best interest.
Bryan A. Garner, the president of Dallas - based LawProse Inc., was originally a Shakespearean scholar, then a legal lexicographer, then a writer on jurisprudence — as well as a book collector.
Lexicographers get to decide what new words will get into next year's edition, and by doing so must choose where to position themselves in the war between descriptivists, who see their role as merely describing how the language is currently being used, and prescriptivists, who feel their role is to guide the reader on how to speak and write well.