This doesn't seem right..... (1 Viewer)

[Tabris]

How can macq dictionary be called macq dictionary if it goes sandstone when it was born from the macq linguistics depart.?

Whats worse, its all because some financial conflict



http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20572470-12332,00.html

 

[AsyLum]

lol, wtf? Hahah thats hilarious, what will the PR department send the kiddies who get accepted into the early entry scheme now

 

[iambored]

oh wth! a lot of our staff worked on that, oh well, it's a crap dictionary anyway, i could never find the words i wanted in it.

they should really split the ling and psych divisions altogether, the 2 areas are so diverse. then again, it's probably the same for some of the other divisions like SCMP

 

[AsyLum]

SCMP isn't too bad, they all have the same general focus, just different writing styles

 

[xeuyrawp]

oh wth! a lot of our staff worked on that, oh well, it's a crap dictionary anyway, i could never find the words i wanted in it.

It's still the official dictionary of the Australian legal system.

And I think it stinks. I doubt that the cost of allowing the dictionary people to sit on-campus was more than the overall substance that it gave to the uni.

 

[marchetta]

The Macquarie dictionary was made as an attempt to provide some justice for the Australian language. If you noticed, most of the words are of Australian spelling (eg, labour > labor) and covers a wide range of Australian slang words. I quite like the dictionary, but then I'm a linguistics student