Monday, April 30, 2007

Just noticed my dictionary is a relic of a bygone age

Just So You Know

Call me anachronistic, but I use a real dictionary to look up words.

I like the internets as much as the next guy, but still prefer, more often than not, the look and feel of a solid dense bit of bookery in my hands.  It means authority, and presence, and presents language in a more permanent and, I daresay, reassuring way than do bits and pixels.

Mostly.  I just noticed that my dictionary is a relic of a bygone age.  Not the age of print and type, but the age when terrorism had to do with Them, not Us. 

I was looking for a word and happened upon a small picture in the margin that caught my eye: a tiny black and white photo of Manhattan, including the Twin Towers, associated with the definition of “skyline”.  About three inches down is another pic, a little larger, of just the towers and labeled “skyscraper”.  Also in the same corner of the page: skyjack.  And sky marshall.


Posted by GeekLethal on 04/30/07 at 10:18 AM
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