The Complete Oxford English Dictionary

[Octavian]

My mother just got it a few days ago from her father. The dictionary began in the 1880's and didn't end until 1928. Only one person who worked on it lived to see it published. These days, very private houses own it, considering the cost is between 2k-3k. There's around 20 books in total. Each of the boxes we received it in weigh 13kg. Pretty impressive isn't it?

[worldvengence]

ya.....but why? lol...internet is much better

[Octavian]

So as you can show it off to your friends. It was a b-day present from her dad.

[321]

Tight but you can't use them can you :lol:.

[Octavian]

I can, I offered to be my mum's personal librarian and have my own little underground library where I can plan all my evil plots.

[Jaged]

Woh, is that the orignal copy that all of the other dictionarys by that name are based on?

[Octavian]

Not THE original, but it's the Second Edition. The ORIGINAL would cost heaps.

EDIT - But I wish :(

[Strygun]

I doubt the original will ever leave the Library of Congress and/or the museum (sp?) it's in.

Just get yourself a collegiate dictionary for like $40 or less and you're set for life.

[Sputty]

I can, I offered to be my mum's personal librarian and have my own little underground library where I can plan all my evil plots.
We all know that's a scat porn dungeon.

[Ivan]

My brother read a book about the history of the Oxford Dictionary. He was telling me about it. I think he said it was call the Gentleman and the Madman. I guess one of the main contributors of the Dictionary was a man in an insane asylum. He said it�s a pretty good read. I wanted to read it but the bastard gave it to an other friend to read. So I ass punched him as hard as I could.

[Octavian]

Good on you Ivan.

[Jabberwocky]

Congradulations, you are now the proud owner of all the words in the english language, except for quibblejibid, that's my word and you can't have it.

Quibblejibid� -2004, Jabberwocky

[Rbstr]

Cool, i always have wanted teh "Complete Encyclopiedia of Everything + Dictionary of all english" but they don't make those

[Setari]

Cool, i always have wanted teh "Complete Encyclopiedia of Everything + Dictionary of all english" but they don't make those
:lol:

[Dharkbayne]

So I ass punched him as hard as I could.


:rofl:

[Octavian]

Congradulations, you are now the proud owner of all the words in the english language, except for quibblejibid, that's my word and you can't have it.

Quibblejibid� -2004, Jabberwocky

Actually they're making a third edition which won't be done until around the year 2040. So I'm going to submit that word to the them.

We all know that's a scat porn dungeon.

Oh um of course it's not. I got "rid" of that ages ago.

[Dharkbayne]

40 years.. to make... a ... book? /me dies

[Octavian]

Apparently with the first edition, they thought it was only take them 4 or 5 years. Oh they were terribly wrong. But you know it took Tolkien something like 12 years to write LOTR. That's one book, with only a bit over 1000 pages. He wrote it by himself.

EDIT - Wooo! I knew I could make First Lieutenant today.

[Ivan]

40 years.. to make... a ... book? /me diesIt's not just one book.

[Octavian]

It's 20 books! Some of you think it may not be worth it, but I can always look up words for you. Just give me the title, "The Dictionary Man".

[Squeeky]

www.dictionary.com motherfuckers.

[Octavian]

Except, that doesn't have every word does it?

[Squeeky]

Who cares? It doesn't have the word Womps! And womps is a coolio word.

[Dharkbayne]

:rofl: Squeeky wins the random of the year award

[Octavian]

They might have that in the third edition.

[Ivan]

His set gives more details about words. Like when it was first used, what it ment then and what it means now, like how the word gay has changed over the years. :) And other things I think.

[Octavian]

Yeah, so that's why I'm the coolest kid on PSU now.

[Squeeky]

Yeah, so that's why I'm the coolest kid on PSU now.

Negative tango foxtrot.

[Rbstr]

His set gives more details about words. Like when it was first used, what it ment then and what it means now, like how the word gay has changed over the years. :) And other things I think.

thats why i want one

[ZeusCali]

okay then let's give ya some homework...
write down the entire entry for "gay" then "inappropriate" that's what 20 pages?
:-D oh ya any one notice martyr's comic today has an error?
vanu don't call them self blue do they?
blue is NC in the comic it says a "blue on blue" conflict
"WTF Mate?!"

BTW
thx hamma for finnally updating the vehicle list
i wanted to see what the lodestar stats were for a while now,
never knew it had vehicle resupply ability!
/end post for the day ;-P

[Ivan]

oh ya any one notice martyr's comic today has an error?
vanu don't call them self blue do they?
blue is NC in the comic it says a "blue on blue" conflict
"WTF Mate?!"I think he's talking about the color of the VS tracers or the color of the lasher's shots.

[Octavian]

thats why i want one

I would buy you one, but they're too expensive.

Sure Zeus.