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I’m reading The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
I just read this passage on how the first dictionary transformed the way we were able to think about, understand and re-use words:
…the meaning of words come from other words. It implies that all words come from other words, taken together, form an interlocking structure: interlocking, because all the words are defined in terms of other words. This could never have been an issue in an oral culture, where language was barely visible. Only when printing
