Talk:wordscape
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New sense 2: "a lexicon". Equinox ◑ 07:51, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
- I assumed this was the work of one of our Anglish enthusiasts, but it turns out it's @Quercus solaris. Any comment here? A "lexicon" is really quite different from the other things given in sense 1. This, that and the other (talk) 10:15, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
- Hi, I came across a citation that uses it as a fancified way of meaning the set of words in use --- the landscape of vocabulary around us. I will either add citations or retract the sense assertion. I'm confident that it's a thing but I'm also not desperate to document it. Thanks, Quercus solaris (talk) 16:01, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
- PS: Having thought about it further, I conclude that the citation was portraying the entire lexicon (vocabulary, word-stock) figuratively as a wordscape (landscape of words, word collage). Interesting. That would make sense 2 a figurative extension of sense 1. I'll have to work out whether to adequately document it or just delete it, depending on how rare it is. Quercus solaris (talk) 16:58, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
- Hi, I came across a citation that uses it as a fancified way of meaning the set of words in use --- the landscape of vocabulary around us. I will either add citations or retract the sense assertion. I'm confident that it's a thing but I'm also not desperate to document it. Thanks, Quercus solaris (talk) 16:01, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
