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Transformation of dictionaries or the complete transformation of lexicography in the english language. Anyone whos read the professor in the mad men, you can remember the descriptions of what it was like to assemble a dictionary in the mid 19th century. There were read arers all over readers all over the world who would submit little files, and eventually those usages, wherever the dictionary was revised which was about every 80 years, would make it into the next round. So it took an incredibly long time to update new meanings of worse. Of course, now its of words. Of course, now its online, and now you have crowd sourcing and people reporting tweets or web sites x its led to this kind of massive democratization of language in this really interesting way. Its also led the oed to have to go back and relearn whole words that, you know, with all of the newspapers online now you can discover usages that no one had ever possibly heard of the last time the dictionary was revised. So it reall ....
Tel Aviv Review Photo: Yahav Gamliel/FLASH90 David N Myers and Benjamin Ravid, professors of Jewish history at UCLA and Brandeis University, respectively, discuss the life and work of Simon Rawidowicz, a seminal, albeit somewhat forgotten, 20th-century Jewish intellectual, upon the publication of an edited volume of his selected writings. ....