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Word for Word
Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
by Peter Mark Roget
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Word for Word
Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
by Peter Mark Roget
It has become something of a literary cliché to bash the thesaurus, or at the very least, to warn fellow writers that it is a book best left alone. Some admonitions might be blunt, others wistful, as with Billy Collins musing on his rarely opened thesaurus. But beyond the romantic anthropomorphizing of words needing to break free from "the warehouse of Roget", what of Collins’ more pointed criticism, that "there is no/such thing as a synonym"? That would suggest that the whole enterprise of constructing a thesaurus is predicated on a fiction.
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Erstellt: 2012-10