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    Antiacademy English Dictionary

    By Estéfano Luján

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    One of worst problems we find in lexicography is etymology: the difficulty, sometimes the impossibility, of tracing rationally the origin of vocables may demotivate us. You may become a lexicographer, without specializing as an etymologist. But, you never busy yourself in lexicography with a disregard of what is proposed as the etymon of words. The most unworthy dictionaries are the unetymological ones, because of their disorder and confusion. An objectivized work must be diversely principled. One of these principles is the distinction between the literality of a word and its metaphorical uses, which, in most cases, may be ascertained by etymology.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEstéfano Luján
    Release dateOct 25, 2014
    ISBN9781310351075
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    Antiacademy English Dictionary
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    Estéfano Luján

    I am lexicographer and writer.Lexicography is for me a means to purify my mind.Galardonado con el premio internacional ANA MARIA AGUERO MELNYCZUK A LA INVESTIGACION -2017 por la obra La ANTIACADEMIA.

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      Far better than Chicago's dictionary. I can't wait for the second volume

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