I was just thinking today that it would be handy to find a website in existence that allows one to create his or her own web-based personal dictionary online. I'm a real word fanatic, and although I consider myself well-read, I often come across words, (esp. with recently moving here to work in the District and dealing with Congress, the Senate and such), with which I am unfamiliar. I definitely did not retain much from my high school government or college political science classes -- because who knew I would actually need to call that to memory again one day? So I'm constantly scribbling, looking up and saving the words and their definitions in a small pocket-size notebook.
Do you currently use a site to compile your own personal dictionary or repository of lingo, jargon, slang, words, etc? It would definitely need to be a website that provides the functionality to search or attach tags to the definitions or put them in alphabetical order or labeled groups, so that they could easily be accessed at a later date.
For now, I use my Blinklist at www.blinklist.com, which is the best Web 2.0 social bookmarking site, IMHO. But I'm curious to see what other methods others may be using.
Do you currently use a site to compile your own personal dictionary or repository of lingo, jargon, slang, words, etc? It would definitely need to be a website that provides the functionality to search or attach tags to the definitions or put them in alphabetical order or labeled groups, so that they could easily be accessed at a later date.
For now, I use my Blinklist at www.blinklist.com, which is the best Web 2.0 social bookmarking site, IMHO. But I'm curious to see what other methods others may be using.
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Re: Where do you store the words you learn as you read?
Wed, December 6, 2006 - 12:34 PMHonestly...
If its a word i like its pretty much assimilated right away. If its one i /might/ use i have an rtf file on my computer, otherwise its just forgotten. -
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Re: Where do you store the words you learn as you read?
Wed, December 6, 2006 - 1:50 PMWhat a cool idea. I would love to have a little word museum somewhere, with amusing or interesting words on exhibit, definitions and maybe entertaining sentences to put them in context.
Sounds like a good tribe idea at least Jen, or at least maybe a thread. -
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Re: Where do you store the words you learn as you read?
Wed, December 6, 2006 - 11:24 PMI have a dictionary, not of interesting words, but just of interesting definitions.
I never thought of showing it to anyone - it's for me.
If I ever did show it to anyone, I would want to edit it and have it in order. Which means work. So... it just stays in a Word document on my laptop, slowly growing. -
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Re: Where do you store the words you learn as you read?
Thu, December 7, 2006 - 7:06 AMBah, if they want to see it they cn take it as is. -
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Re: Where do you store the words you learn as you read?
Thu, December 7, 2006 - 2:21 PMI store them in my head. I try to find opportunities to use them so that they sink in. Haven't had much of a chance to discuss abiogenesis lately though:) -
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Re: Where do you store the words you learn as you read?
Fri, December 8, 2006 - 1:02 AMMost of the words in my dictionary, I wouldn't actually want to use.
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Re: Where do you store the words you learn as you read?
Sat, December 9, 2006 - 12:03 AMWhile it's not precisely what you've described, you might still be interested in a new social software called Wordie: wordie.org/
I haven't joined yet (just heard about it via Library Thing a week or two ago) but I must say, looking over the words on the opening page, I am tempted. How can I possibly resist the allure of "perdure", "rodomontade" and "verbigeration"? ;-)
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Re: Where do you store the words you learn as you read?
Tue, May 15, 2007 - 1:18 PMI carry a pocket oxford with me wherever I go. I mark off every word I look up. sometimes I'll go through and look at those words, or sometimes when I find myself looking up a word a second time I just REALLY try to remember it.
If the word isn't in there, I write it down in my journal (I have special pages that I save for this purpose...big list of words!) and lopok them up in the online dictionary.