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Seven Day Meme - Day 4
Dec. 10th, 2009 11:59 pmDay one • a song
Day two • a picture
Day three • a book
Day four • a site
Day five • a youtube clip
Day six • a quote
Day seven • whatever tickles your fancy
All the websites that I visit on a regular basis are on my links toolbar. Most of them fall under communications/social networking (e-mail, facebook, LJ, etc.). But then some of them fall under English geekery. And perhaps the best of those is the following:
The Oxford English Dictionary
I'm spoiled rotten because every university I've been a part of (so basically Berkeley and Queen Mary) has paid for access for their students. This means that at any given moment I can look up any word that strikes my fancy and figure out exactly where it came from, how its meaning has changed, and what that means for the way I use it now. I've been known to get lost on www.oed.com just clicking through links to related words. I once spent an afternoon looking up the etymology of every swear/curse I could think of (the entry for "fuck" is rather impressive). You know you're an English geek when you don't just use the OED for scholarly research...
The downside is, if you're not affiliated with a university and want to share in the joy that is the definitive record of the English language, you've got to pay. But, as I intend to be affiliated with some university or another for the rest of my life, this doesn't seem like such a large hindrance.
Day two • a picture
Day three • a book
Day four • a site
Day five • a youtube clip
Day six • a quote
Day seven • whatever tickles your fancy
All the websites that I visit on a regular basis are on my links toolbar. Most of them fall under communications/social networking (e-mail, facebook, LJ, etc.). But then some of them fall under English geekery. And perhaps the best of those is the following:
The Oxford English Dictionary
I'm spoiled rotten because every university I've been a part of (so basically Berkeley and Queen Mary) has paid for access for their students. This means that at any given moment I can look up any word that strikes my fancy and figure out exactly where it came from, how its meaning has changed, and what that means for the way I use it now. I've been known to get lost on www.oed.com just clicking through links to related words. I once spent an afternoon looking up the etymology of every swear/curse I could think of (the entry for "fuck" is rather impressive). You know you're an English geek when you don't just use the OED for scholarly research...
The downside is, if you're not affiliated with a university and want to share in the joy that is the definitive record of the English language, you've got to pay. But, as I intend to be affiliated with some university or another for the rest of my life, this doesn't seem like such a large hindrance.