Democracy of language in new Internet dictionary

definition of words


Wordia offers everyone the chance to record and upload
a video of themselves defining their chosen word in a complete
democratization of the language that will have Samuel Johnson,
the compiler of the first dictionary, turning in his grave.


Another offering is "nascent" which suggests that wordia is
a nascent technology that "takes something quite dull like a
dictionary and makes it not quite as dull."


The organizers hope their new online audio-visual
dictionary will become a living language archive. Time will
tell.


(Reporting by Jeremy Lovell; editing by Paul Casciato)

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