Thank you Joe.
My reason for focusing on Dictionaries is simply that they are the
degenerate case, and not because of recent discussion here regarding
the Century Dictionary. It's the memeio party line :-)
Dictionaries have many of the properties of non-attributed NPOV
encyclopedias and are
Steven and
Larry:
Thanks for your respective
responses. Let me respond to Steven first, as a matter of convenience, and
respond to Larry in another message (not yet composed), with whose view I may
have greater disagreement.
I don't understand why you choose
the case of dictionaries
Dear Joe,
There are no authorities on authority and the public is vulnerable if
it thinks otherwise.
The memeio position can be summarized by saying that dictionaries are
bad and glossaries are good.
Dictionaries - and non-attributable content of any kind - are sociologically dangerous from
