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The Scribner-Bantam Dictionary (review)

The Scribner-Bantam Dictionary (review) Reviews235 Korespondado Zamenhof - Phillips," Israela Esperantisto 73, September 1980, pp. 1-3). To the extent that a lexeme has lexical meaning (rather than functional meaning), its definition should be syntactically substitutable for it in as many sentences as possible (however windy or odd such utterances may seem). It is therefore unfortunate that W9 not only defines gentrification as 'the immigration of middle-class people into a deteriorating or recently renewed area' but also singles out this definition in the front matter (p. 29) as an example of how W9's staff went about defining. In "the gentrification of the Lower East Side," for example, this definition is grammatically uninsertable. See WNWD' s better treatment. With respect to my seeing sexism in entries like orienteering (section 11), I realize that some will object that he here is epicene and that W9 appropriately defines the word in this sense ('used in a generic sense or when the sex of the person is unspecified'), but this is a self-serving definition, as unacceptable to anti-sexists as church 'house of worship' is to non-Christians (cf. Jewish church 'synagog'). Even if he is not meant to be sexist, it subconsciously reinforces sexist ways of thinking. The http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America Dictionary Society of North America

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Reviews235 Korespondado Zamenhof - Phillips," Israela Esperantisto 73, September 1980, pp. 1-3). To the extent that a lexeme has lexical meaning (rather than functional meaning), its definition should be syntactically substitutable for it in as many sentences as possible (however windy or odd such utterances may seem). It is therefore unfortunate that W9 not only defines gentrification as 'the immigration of middle-class people into a deteriorating or recently renewed area' but also singles out this definition in the front matter (p. 29) as an example of how W9's staff went about defining. In "the gentrification of the Lower East Side," for example, this definition is grammatically uninsertable. See WNWD' s better treatment. With respect to my seeing sexism in entries like orienteering (section 11), I realize that some will object that he here is epicene and that W9 appropriately defines the word in this sense ('used in a generic sense or when the sex of the person is unspecified'), but this is a self-serving definition, as unacceptable to anti-sexists as church 'house of worship' is to non-Christians (cf. Jewish church 'synagog'). Even if he is not meant to be sexist, it subconsciously reinforces sexist ways of thinking. The

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Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North AmericaDictionary Society of North America

Published: Apr 4, 1984

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