(If you’re interested in learning more about emblems in different cultures, you may enjoyDictionary of Gestures: Expressive Comportments and Movements in Use Around the World. Bonus:this Wordnik listof emblematic gestures.) homesign “The hand movements are calledhomesigns(because they were crea...
Tag:Wordnik Vocabulary notebooks, Criminally Insane Asylum Patients, Zettelkasten, the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, and Digital Dictionaries A Sixth Grade Vocabulary Notebook The sixth grade language arts class at the school in Altadena, CA, which my daughter attends, has a weekly set of vocabulary ...
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Wordnik is working on doing just that, McKean said, creating a layer over text that provides "free-range definitions" that live "out in the wild" of the Internet. "The newer a word is the more likely you want to know about it," she said. "Every word has a chance to have real st...