Junior dictionary contents
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Another move by the digital craze against language.
Which, sadly, many here will probably have no problem with.
Article’s from nine years ago? This is where we’re at now.
If you’re worried about this, the problem mentioned was really more about access to open space than the words changing in a dictionary, why not set up a nature group for kids instead of moaning about it on your computer.
Something more positive — and more up to date — from Generation Z:
It isn’t young people i am blaming. It’s what is being done to them by the producers of junior dictionaries and other internet-obsessed and newspeak-obsessed pundits.
“It’s what is being done to them by the producers of junior dictionaries and other internet-obsessed and newspeak-obsessed pundits.”
The function of a dictionary is descriptive not prescriptive. They are just tracking which words are commonly used and how they are being used.
Lack of access to green spaces is not a new problem and not one that the makers of a children’s dictionary are in a position to solve.
It’s too easy to get swept up by moral panics…
I also see someone produced a child’s dictionary that is full of nature words, for those that want to use that version..
Well that’s something. It is very sad, in fact, to think of children in concrete landscapes sat in front of computers and glued, already, to mobile phones and digital games.
Those with deprived backgrounds, i understand, never enjoyed the happy childhood i did, so won’t have any affection for their childhood years. But i myself cannot imagine today’s childhoods, without books and toys galore, and things real, not virtual.
Often i think i’m the only one here with William Morris’ passion for things: for that which was beautiful about the past, even if life was often sordid (it still is that!); for artefacts, artisanry, books, tapestries. Wasn’t his dream that everyone should enjoy such things and not just a few; not that they should disappear and be mere memories for a few sentimentalists, and that all of us should become lumpen automata?
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