Jonathon Green
English lexicographer and writer
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Technology...appears to have entered the language in a way that it had previously not. The pure proliferation of the media, of computers, of the worlds of marketing and business (at least during their heyday in the 'yuppie 1980s') seems to have brought the vocabulary of such once-arcane areas into greater prominence. Language obviously reflects the times in which one lives, but the insouciance with which non-professionals absorb these terms into their daily lives is surely something new.
—Jonathon Green, English lexicographer and writer, Dictionary of New Words, 1991
Posted on September 20, 2000 at 6:31 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
The perfect dictionary, the all-encompassing dictionary of every word in a given language, is of course an impossibility. The linguistic "big bang" has been expanding since the dawn of language. It will not stop, however much some lexicographers seek to delineate a "fixed" version of their particular tongue.
—Jonathon Green, English lexicographer and writer, Chasing the Sun, 1996
Posted on August 25, 2000 at 7:36 AM
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