AskOxford: The Oxford English Corpus
What makes an Oxford Dictionary?
People find dictionary-making fascinating. The 250th anniversary last year of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary was widely celebrated, and the recent BBC television series Balderdash and Piffle had a huge response to its call to viewers to help track down elusive word and phrase origins. But how are dictionaries written today? And how do you know that what is included in a dictionary is accurate and up to date?
Oxford English Corpus - language research based on real evidenceOxford Dictionaries are continually monitoring and researching how language is evolving. The Oxford English Corpus is central to the process and to Oxford's £35 million research programme - the largest language research programme in the world.
What is a corpus?A corpus is a collection of texts of written (or spoken) language presented in electronic form. It provides the evidence of how language is used in real situations, from which lexicographers can write accurate and meaningful dictionary entries. The Oxford English Corpus is at the heart of dictionary-making in Oxford in the 21st century and ensures that we can track and record the very latest developments in language today. By analysing the corpus and using special software, we can see words in context and find out how new words and senses are emerging, as well as spotting other trends in usage, spelling, world English, and so on.
Why Do CEOs (Still) Love Ayn Rand?
Why Do CEOs (Still) Love Ayn Rand?
by Kim Girard
Tags: Ingersoll-Rand, Alan Greenspan, Objectivist, Kent, Entrepreneurship...
How did a Russian-born novelist become such an influential “thought leader” for American CEOs, entrepreneurs, and MBAs — and even Alan Greenspan? Consider the message behind Ayn Rand best sellers The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, which speaks to anyone with ambition and a big ego: The gifted should do what’s in their self-interest. If you have a sharp mind, it is your moral responsibility to make yourself happy. The weak are not your problem. “I am for an absolute laissez-faire, free, unregulated economy,” Rand told CBS interviewer Mike Wallace in 1959. “If you separate the government from economics, if you do not regulate production and trade, you will have peaceful cooperation, harmony, and justice among men.”LitLovers - 2666 Discussion Questions - Book Club Guide
- To call 2666 ambitious is to understate its scale. Comprising five almost autonomous books, the novel is a chronicle of the 20th century, unafraid to confront its more gruesome turns in its sweep across history. The binding link, insofar as there is one, is the Mexican border town of Santa Teresa, modeled on Ciudad Juárez, where for the better part of the 1990s there were hundreds of brutal murders, with the bodies of young women turning up in dumps and deserts at the city’s margin.
- Bolaño was a heroin addict in his youth and died of chronic hepatitis, caused by Hepatitis C, with which he was infected as a result of sharing needles during his "mainlining" days. He had suffered from liver failure and was on a transplant list.
- A key episode in Bolaño's life, mentioned in different forms in several of his works, occurred in 1973, when he left Mexico for Chile to "help build the revolution." After Augusto Pinochet's coup against Salvador Allende, Bolaño was arrested on suspicion of being a terrorist and spent eight days in custody
- n the 1970s, Bolaño became a Trotskyist and a founding member of infrarrealismo, a minor poetic movement. Although deep down he always felt like a poet, in the vein of his beloved Nicanor Parra, his reputation ultimately rests on his novels, novellas and short story collections.
- Make no mistake, 2666 is a work of huge importance ... a complex literary experience, in which the author seeks to set down his nightmares while he feels time running out. Bolano inspires passion, even when his material, his era, and his volume seem overwhelming. This could only be published in a single volume, and it can only be read as one.
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