From: Scott Chase (osteopilus@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu 24 Mar 2005 - 07:16:49 GMT
Kate:
When you (on pages 61-2) talk about biological
constraints on culture you assert: "...the meme for
binding the whole of the Oxford English Dictionary
into one huge, unmanageable volume would be doomed to
failure because we are not physically large enough to
handle it."
AFAIK, the Compact OED is such a hopeful monster. See:
According to this write-up, this Compact OED is not an
abridgement and thankfully comes with magnifying
lense. I'd prefer the multi-volume set with regular
print size myself, because the print is painfuly tiny
for the Compact OED, but it does exist.
Apparently the leash on culture is looser than you
thought, but one might want to be careful with the
Compact OED. If it does get you with the severe eye
strain, it might slip from your hand and injure your
foot.
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