lexicography

Going out and looking means lexicography is something of an observational science (N.

If this talk on lexicography is any indication, there's still a lot of work to be done in other knowledge domains.

The purpose of my post, with my opinion on UD, was not to discuss lexicography.

Like the writer expects lexicography to be just an art form where word lovers can explore and display their idiolects or something.

It could be differences in Standard American and Queen's English, changes in the general language over 300 years, differences in lexicography, etc.

I think Alanis Morrisette should be brought to the Hague and stand trial for crimes against lexicography.

Also, in English there are already many authoritative sources, many with a century of profesional lexicography behind them by the best in the business.

Yeah, writing anything that doesn't conform to typical rules of lexicography.

Modern English lexicography is descriptive and not prescriptive.

Ethics are not reducible to lexicography.

This is one reason i'm putting my appeal under this article - because I think (professional) lexicography can stand to evolve more in the 21st century.

We've had some centuries now to get better at technical writing, language engineering, and lexicography, to say nothing of IT.

It's a slow work as few people is interested in lexicography, moreso when dealing with "rare" languages or language pairs.

"...there are more English words than the other language" There might be more words in some English dictionaries than in some dictionaries of other languages, but that may just be due to a lot more effort having gone into English lexicography than X language lexicography.

One person, supposedly a an intellectual leading light of Objectivism at the time, said that nuking Iran was fine because Iran pursing nuclear enrichment constituted "initiation of force" (important term of art in the Rand lexicography), seemingly squaring the circle between Rand's brand of hardcore libertarian isolationism and neocon warmongering that was popular at the time.

"Dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive; they reflect usage, not control it." I've heard rumors that there are lexicographers have other ideas about this, but I've never actually found anything about lexicography other than what you've described.

Lexicography tends to be descriptive rather than prescriptive.