RE: Kate's book/ Compact OED- a sight for sore eyes

From: Lawrence deBivort (debivort@umd5.umd.edu)
Date: Thu 24 Mar 2005 - 07:26:26 GMT

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    Hi!

    I'm enjoying the conversation. Thanks to you both.

    The compact OED is great, IMO. I'm lucky to be able to read the print directly, and book shelf real estate is at a premium in my home.

    Cheers, Lawrence de Bivort

    -----Original Message----- From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Scott Chase Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 2:17 AM To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Kate's book/ Compact OED- a sight for sore eyes

    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:

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0198612583/qid=1111647590/sr=1
    -6/ref=sr_1_6/104-4335505-5305529?v=glance&s=books

    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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