Lexicography is imbued with life with all its sweet memories,
vicissitudes of living and potential evolutionary growth.
“In capturing a word, a sliver of lived experience can be
observed and defined. If only you were able to catch all the words, perhaps you
could define existence.”
Every dictionary must be a family album of nostalgic moments narrating
stories, histories, narrations and all these nurturing the pride of ancestry
and heralding a hope for future through the nice anecdotal references.
When lexicology and literature come together and deliver a
baby of words and expressions with inherited beauty of etymology and denotation.
They watch the baby grow into a child acquiring connotations
as it experiences its life through various contexts.
Then the metamorphosis of child into a marvelous adult happens
as it captures the raptures of evolutionary imperatives in linguistics.
Online dictionaries can be spiced up with audio-visual
presentations, appropriate anecdotes, captive dialogues and relevant quotations
that would enable us to remember the word/phrase/expression because of the
impact of the quotations, probably with hints to usage in different contexts.
Also read
Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest
dictionary survive the internet? | News | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/23/oxford-english-dictionary-can-worlds-biggest-dictionary-survive-internet
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/23/oxford-english-dictionary-can-worlds-biggest-dictionary-survive-internet
