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Reporting concepts as well as the relationships between concepts and other semantic meaning. By Anonymous Reporting Meaning Concepts Relationships Semantic

I was instructed long ago by a wise editor, "If you understand something you can explain it so that almost anyone can understand it. If you don't, you won't be able to understand your own explanation." ... Jargon is the last refuge of the scoundrel. By Roger Ebert Understand Editor Instructed Long Ago

And yet my lexicon develops without logic, in a darting, fleeting manner. The words appear, accompany me for a while, then, often without warning, abandon me. By Jhumpa Lahiri Logic Darting Fleeting Manner Lexicon

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Language Mind Conquests Armory Human

The vocabulary I use has to reflect the people I'm trying to communicate with. By Damian Loeb Vocabulary Reflect People Communicate

New vocabularies can make old beliefs possible. By David Perez Vocabularies Make Beliefs

ATTRIBUTE, TERM, SUBJECT, PREDICATE, PARTICULAR, UNIVERSALcharmingly useful, if any friend should happen to ask if you have ever studied Logic. Mind you bring all seven words into your answer, and you friend will go away deeply impressed'a sadder and a wiser By Lewis Carroll Attribute Term Subject Predicate Logic

Prefer the specific to the general, the definite to the vague, the concrete to the abstract. By William Strunk Jr. Prefer General Vague Abstract Specific

We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations! By Ralph Waldo Emerson Meanings Assisted Natural Objects Expression

You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power. By Rufus Choate Newspapers Caught Air Common Unsuggestive

The destructive potential of language is contained within the very nature of representation. Words, particularly nouns, force an infinite of unique objects and processes into a finite number of categories. By Charles Eisenstein Representation Destructive Potential Language Contained

Vocabularian (n.) One who pays too much attention to words. In the past I have been accused by various parties of paying too much attention to words. Which is true, I suppose; but what else do I have to pay attention to? Vomiturient By Ammon Shea Vocabularian Attention Words Vomiturient True

All words have the "taste" of a profession, a genre, a tendency, a party, a particular work, a particular person, a generation, an age group, the day and hour. Each word tastes of the context and contexts in which it has lived its socially charged life ... By Mikhail Bakhtin Profession Genre Tendency Party Work

To dispatch one's friends to a dictionary from time to time is one of the more sophisticated pleasures of life, but it is one that must be indulged in sparingly: to do it too often may result in accusations of having swallowed one's own dictionary, which is not a compliment, whichever way one looks at it. By Alexander Mccall Smith Dictionary Time Life Sparingly Compliment

Students who take Latin are more proficient and earn higher scores on the verbal SAT exam. The business world has long recognized the importance of a rich vocabulary and rates it high as evidence of executive potential and success. Understanding the etymological history of a word gives the user vividness, color, punch, and precision. It also seems that the clearer and more numerous our verbal images, the greater our intellectual power. Wheelock's Latin is profuse with the etymological study of English and vocabulary enrichment. Our own experiences have shown that students will not only remember vocabulary words longer and better when they understand their etymologies, but also will use them with a sharper sense of meaning and nuance. By Frederic M. Wheelock Sat Latin Exam Vocabulary Proficient

In the room where I work, I have a chalkboard, and as I'm going along, I write the made-up words on it. A few feet from that chalkboard is a copy of the full 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, to which I refer frequently as a source of ideas and word roots. By Neal Stephenson Work Chalkboard Room Write Madeup

People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another. By Erin Mckean People Thing Jargon Bad Shortcut

There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science. By Andrew Bird Nomenclatures Words Science Lot Interesting

a good vocabulary helps the reader understand the context of the message. By Jonathan Wallace Message Good Vocabulary Reader Understand

Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact. By Susanne Katherina Langer Categorical Commonsense Prompt Inexact Knowledge

The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them. By Al Stewart Literati Cellarsperform Semantic Tarantellasi Half

Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated sequence of thinking operations under a unique name. By Marjorie Garber Jargon Thinking Marks Place Macro

Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes and defeats, their fevers, their undiagnosable ailments, their sudden deaths. They also have their moral and social distinctions. By Virgilia Peterson Words Genealogy History Economy Literature

A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge. By Samuel Johnson Lexicographer Dictionaries Drudge Writer Harmless

Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified. By Vannevar Bush Ready Wholly Amplified Forms Encyclopedias

The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague. By Garth Stein Language Words Vague Human Precise

Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the notion that one could use words freely, as one liked, without hard and fast rules of lexical conduct. By Simon Winchester Product Freedoms Freely Conduct Grand

The lexis is a measure of shared experience, which comes from interconnectedness. The number of users of the language forms only the first part of the equation: jumping in four centuries from 5 million English speakers to a billion. By James Gleick Experience Interconnectedness Lexis Measure Shared

The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries. By Voltaire Dictionaries Multiplicity Facts Writings Great

It is the children between five and seven who are the word-lovers. It is they who show a predisposition toward such study. Their undeveloped minds can not yet grasp a complete idea with distinctness. They do, however, understand words. And they may be entirely carried away by their ecstatic, their tireless interest in the parts of speech. By Maria Montessori Wordlovers Children Study Distinctness Show

Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor put together. By Mario Pei Science Technology Contribute Fastexpanding Vocabularies

Why don't you purchase an Italian dictionary? I will assume the expense.""I have one," she said, "but I don't think it's very good. Half the words are missing.""Half?""Well, some," she amended. "But truly, that's not the problem."He blinked, waiting for her to continue.She did. Of course. "I don't think Italian is the author's native tongue," she said."The author of the dictionary?" he queried."Yes. It's not terribly idiomatic. By Julia Quinn Half Italian Purchase Dictionary Author

Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to ideas that, if stated directly, would seem superficial, stale, frivolous, or false. The line between serious and spurious scholarship is an easy one to blur, with jargon on your side. By David Lehman Stale Frivolous Fashionable Directly Superficial

It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone. By Ferdinand De Saussure Study Perceives Linguistics Aware Object

An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and unorganized. We need a sort of mental clearing house for the mind: a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified and compared By H.g.wells Knowledge Today Age Unorganized Immense

My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted. By Beverly Cleary Favorite Dictionary List Constant Books

I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories. By Ron Rash Dictionaries Love Learning Dialects Sorts

Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary. By Tim Gunn Vocabulary Activities Delightful Learning

In our rapid and externalized world, language has become ghostlike, abbreviated to code and label. Words that would mirror the soul carry the loam of substance and the shadow of the divine. The sense of silence and darkness behind the words in more ancient cultures, particularly in folk culture, is absent in the modern use of language. Language is full of acronyms; nowadays we are impatient of words that carry with them histories and associations. By John O'donohue Words World Ghostlike Abbreviated Label

Careful writers and discerning readers delight in the profusion of words in the English lexicon, no two of which are exact synonyms. Many words convey subtle shades of meaning, By Steven Pinker English Careful Lexicon Synonyms Words

The moment we shake our addiction to narrative and give up our strong-headed intent that language must say something "meaningful," we open ourselves up to different types of linguistic experience, which could include sorting and structuring words in unconventional ways: by constraint, by sound, by the way words look, and so forth, rather than always feeling the need to coerce them toward meaning. By Kenneth Goldsmith Meaningful Words Experience Constraint Sound

English, as Charlton Laird has noted, is the only language that has, or needs, books of synonyms like Roget's Thesaurus. "Most speakers of other languages are not aware that such books exist" [The Miracle of Language, page 54]. By Bill Bryson Thesaurus English Charlton Laird Roget

What enriches language is its being handled and exploited by beautiful minds-not so much by making innovations as by expanding it through more vigorous and varied applications, by extending it and deploying it. It is not words that they contribute: what they do is enrich their words, deepen their meanings and tie down their usage; they teach it unaccustomed rhythms, prudently though and with ingenuity. By Michel De Montaigne Applications Enriches Language Handled Exploited

Five of the most exciting words in the English language: "What shall I read next? By Jason Erik Lundberg English Language Exciting Words Read

Our vocabulary may become a real time algorithmic word bank. Could you imagine having a conversation like that? Where the meaning of words constantly adapts? By Natasha Tsakos Bank Vocabulary Real Time Algorithmic

The vocabulary for discussing smells, tastes and textures, the primary characteristics of wine, seems paltry compared with the far better developed lexicon for sights and sounds. By Anonymous Smells Tastes Textures Wine Sounds

One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms. By Gottfried Leibniz Conversely Dictionaries Terms Explain Words

The dictionary is like a time capsule of all of human thinking ever since words began to be written down. And exploring where words have come from can increase your understanding of the words themselves and expand your understanding of how to use the words, and all of this change happens in your thinking when you read the words. By Andrew Clements Words Thinking Understanding Dictionary Time

Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance. By Henry Watson Fowler Prefer Word Farfetched Familiar Romance

What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools. By Robert Burns Latin Schools Stools Fools Jargon

Hamilton, the human word machine, By Ron Chernow Hamilton Machine Human Word

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations. By Ferdinand De Saussure Series Families Speech Groups Category

Education jargon is the language of pedants; it identifies those who have so little confidence in themselves and their work that they seek to create a veil of words to hide them. By Ted Sizer Education Pedants Jargon Language Identifies

All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a pond. The good news is that the acts of searching and gathering always expand the number of usable words. By Roy Peter Clark Vocabulary Pond Possess Reading Big

Jargon live in the swamps. They feed on attention. If they can't get that, they'll settle for fear and confusion. ... A little Jargon doesn't look like much. Some people even keep them as pets. But they form packs, and they are very dangerous. By Carlos Bueno Swamps Live Jargon Attention Feed

Encyclopedias are finished. All encyclopedias combined, including the redoubtable Britannica, have already been surpassed by the exercise in groupthink known as Wikipedia. By James Gleick Finished Britannica Wikipedia Encyclopedias Combined

How many books are there?" said Masklin."Hundreds! Thousands!""Do you know what they're all about?"Gurder looked at him blankly. "Do you know what you're saying?" he said."No. But I want to find out.""They're about everything! You'd never believe it! They're full of words even I don't understand!""Can you find a book which tells you how to understand words you don't understand?" said Masklin.Gurder hesitated. "It's an intriguing thought," he said. By Terry Pratchett Hundreds Masklin Understand Gurder Find

I just read them for fun.""Dictionaries?""Yes.""That doesn't sound like fun. That sounds awful.""Awful used to mean 'full of awe.' The same meaning as awesome. I learned that from a dictionary."He blinked."See?" She said. "Fun. By Max Barry Dictionaries Yes Fun Fun Awful

Vocabulary spills I'm ill. By Nas Vocabulary Ill Spills

Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study. By Aldous Huxley Words Study Play Enormous Part

You cannot begin to deal with terms, propositions, and arguments - the elements of thought - until you can penetrate beneath the surface of language. By Mortimer J. Adler Propositions Terms Arguments Thought Language

Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end with a thumb-riffle, poring over frontispieces. Books! Opening with a crackle of old glue, releasing perfume; closing with a solid thump. By John Crowley Learning Pages Measuring Thumbriffle Poring

What I need is an Urban Thesaurus. I know what money is what I need is 600 different ways to say it. By Gary Gulman Thesaurus Urban Money

Useful though they are, the vast majority of dictionaries and encyclopedias are poker-faced pieces of work that stick to the facts and present them as soberly - and unstylishly - as possible. By Terry Teachout Soberly Unstylishly Vast Majority Dictionaries

I preferred the simplest vocabulary. By Louise Gluck Vocabulary Preferred Simplest

The intellectualist philosopher who wants to hold words to their precise meaning, and uses them as the countless little tools of clear thinking, is bound to be surprised by the poet's daring. And yet a syncretism of sensitivity keeps words from crystallizing into perfect solids. Unexpected adjectives collect about the focal meaning of the noun. A new environment allows the word to enter not only into one's thoughts, but also into one's daydreams. Language dreams. By Gaston Bachelard Thinking Daring Words Intellectualist Philosopher

Words are tools of imagery in motion, By Sam Shepard Words Motion Tools Imagery

A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind. By Paul Valery Vocabulary Combinations Mind Limited Make

[Latin] allows you to adore words, take them apart and find out where they came from. By Dr. Seuss Latin Words Adore Find

According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied. By Christopher Monckton Wife Varied Vocabulary Wide

Words have not just the astonishing capacity to banish boredom and create wonders. They also enable contact with the lives of others and with story worlds, arousing endless curiosity about ourselves and the places we inhabit. By Maria Tatar Words Astonishing Capacity Banish Boredom

Use your dictionary to find the meaning of the new vocabulary words needed for this exercise before you begin. Write the words in your language in the space provided. Complete the following sentences using the correct form of the verb to be. 1. My aunt nice. 2. The clouds white. 3. Kathy sick. 4. The ribbons yellow. 5. We twins. 6. The windows open. By Julie Lachance Words Begin Dictionary Find Meaning

Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles. By Joshua Foer Ages Middle Philosophers Orderly Logical

If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word. By Dave Barry Dictionary Word Big

God, I love a man with a big vocabulary. By Tiffany Reisz God Vocabulary Love Man Big

The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible. By J.m. Coetzee Poetry Function Unforeseen Masters Information

No matter how enriched your vocabulary is, it's the understanding that matters. By Bhavik Sarkhedi Enriched Vocabulary Understanding Matter Matters

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound,Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found. By Alexander Pope Leaves Fruit Sense Words Found

I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts. By Mike Tyson Vocabulary Literature Science Arts Match

open coding; development of concepts; grouping concepts into categories; formation of a theory. In the open coding stage, we analyze the text and identify any interesting phenomena in the data. Normally each unique phenomenon is given a distinctive name or code. The procedure and methods for identifying coding items are discussed in section 11.5.2. In the second stage, collections of codes that describe similar contents are grouped together to form higher level "concepts." In the third stage, broader groups of similar concepts are identified to form "categories" and there is a detailed interpretation of each category. In this process, we are constantly searching for and refining the conceptual construct that may explain the relationship between the concepts and categories (Glaser, 1978). In the last stage, theory formulation, we aim at creating inferential and predictive statements about the phenomena recorded in the data. By Jonathan Lazar Stage Coding Concepts Open Categories

The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries. By Mark Twain Dictionaries Dream Vocabulary Shaves Meanings

I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.' By Gary Jennings Thick Things People Call Contend

We live in an ocean of words, but like a fish in water we are often not aware of it. By Stuart Chase Words Live Ocean Fish Water

Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists. By Walter Pater Product Tongues Compact Association Laws

You don't want to sound as though you used a Sharper Image catalogue for a thesaurus. By Renni Browne Sharper Image Thesaurus Sound Catalogue

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary - it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences. By W. Somerset Maugham Dictionary Sentences Words Stories Found

A gloss is a total system of perception and language. By Talcott Parsons Language Gloss Total System Perception

The general fund of vocabulary, nay, of discourse itself, so calamitous that the failure of the banks in 1929 seems paltry by comparison; so that we find verbal paupers all around us, tattered, emaciated, and reduced to the stark penury of such verbal resources as "It's like wow" or using "interface" or "office" as verbs. By Thomas Howard Nay Tattered Emaciated Interface Office

Consciousness may be seen as the haughty and restless second cousin of morphology. Memory is its mistress, perception its somewhat abused wife, logic its housekeeper, and language its poorly paid secretary By Gerald Edelman Consciousness Morphology Haughty Restless Cousin

I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another. By John Maynard Smith Oneanother Invent Jargon Saves Times

Geoffrey Miller notes that most adults have a vocabulary of about sixty thousand words. To build that vocabulary, children must learn ten to twenty words a day between the ages of eighteen months and eighteen years. And yet the most frequent one hundred words account for 60 percent of all conversations. The most common four thousand words account for 98 percent of conversations. Why do humans bother knowing By David Brooks Miller Words Geoffrey Percent Vocabulary

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience. By Julian Huxley Words Experience Tools Automatically Carve

Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science. By Laurence Sterne Learning Dictionary Science Sense Grammar

We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other. By Jose Saramago Words Understand Find

Her efforts received encouragement. In fact, they were welcomed as the Tallises began to understand that the baby of the family possessed a strange mind and a facility with words. The long afternoons she spent browsing through the dictionary and thesaurus made for constructions that were inept, but hauntingly so: the coins a villain concealed in his pocket were 'esoteric,' a hoodlum caught stealing a car wept in 'shameless auto-exculpation,' the heroine on her thoroughbred stallion made a 'cursory' journey through the night, the king's furrowed brow was the 'hieroglyph' of his displeasure. By Ian Mcewan Encouragement Efforts Received Made Tallises

I'm apt to get drunk on words ... Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being. By Madeleine L'engle Word Apt Drunk Ontology Words

What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled. By Mal Peet Lucidity Books Rich Page Language

I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language. By William Stafford Dictionaries Learning Definitions Established Latest

Never should an unfamiliar word be passed over without elucidation, for, with a little conscientious research, we may each day add to our conquests in the realm of philology and become more and more ready for graceful independent expression. By H.p. Lovecraft Elucidation Research Expression Unfamiliar Word

Linguistically, and hence conceptually, the things in sharpest focus are the things that are public enough to be talked of publicly, common and conspicuous enough to be talked of often, and near enough to sense to be quickly identified and learned by name; it is to these that words apply first and foremost. By Willard Van Orman Quine Talked Things Linguistically Conceptually Publicly