You've a very long page, don't you Mr. Webster
December 1, 2004 8:35 AM Subscribe
Webster's Excessive Dictionary In case you missed it, here is a megalomaniacal dictionary for your browsing edification. How big is big? When you need an index and 16 subsections to define the word "spew."
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This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm genuinely curious if these dictionary sites are legal. The domains-with-so-many-dashes-that-they-stink-of-seo-spam lead me to believe they aren't, and it's all a big giant screen-scraping ploy to make a few bucks off google ads.
First, big ups to notmtwain for sharing this.
They call themselves Webster's - The Rosetta Edition.
This site appears to be the work of a Philip Parker, or more properly, Professor Parker of Innovation, Business and Society, at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France and Singapore. Read bout it here.
It's quite interesting -- it's named Webster after Noah Webster, a man so full of knowledge that he learned over 25 languages. He also compiled one of the first dictionaries. And here I am forgetting my French.
Your guess is as good as mine when Merriam-Webster or Random House ("Webster's Unabridged") pull a hissy and demand the site cease and desist.
posted by cavalier at 8:37 AM on December 1, 2004
They call themselves Webster's - The Rosetta Edition.
This site appears to be the work of a Philip Parker, or more properly, Professor Parker of Innovation, Business and Society, at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France and Singapore. Read bout it here.
It's quite interesting -- it's named Webster after Noah Webster, a man so full of knowledge that he learned over 25 languages. He also compiled one of the first dictionaries. And here I am forgetting my French.
Your guess is as good as mine when Merriam-Webster or Random House ("Webster's Unabridged") pull a hissy and demand the site cease and desist.
posted by cavalier at 8:37 AM on December 1, 2004
This post is like turning spew into a tasty spew stew.
posted by neckro23 at 8:38 AM on December 1, 2004
posted by neckro23 at 8:38 AM on December 1, 2004
Hey, take a deep breath and pretend you didn't see the initial debacle. Now go look at that link. It's pretty wild, no? Worthy of discussion, hm? Maybe we can focus more on the site... that was my intention.
posted by cavalier at 8:41 AM on December 1, 2004
posted by cavalier at 8:41 AM on December 1, 2004
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