NOPE NOPE NOOOOOPE fuck that man.

  • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    12 days ago

    The most offensive part is the monthly price point. What goo between the ears business idiot convinced these people they could charge more than a Netflix (+ ads) subscription for the dictionary? You could literally buy a brand new one and set it on fire every month for that cost. Fucking leeches.

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      You couldn’t do that, OED is so massive they’re not even printing it anymore. Old sets are on Amazon for $1000+

      It’s weird to talk about “the dictionary”, there’s no single default dictionary, they’re all different and this is a dictionary for specialists. It’s a historical dictionary, so it covers words and their usage from up to a millenium ago (although IIRC it doesn’t include words that haven’t survived into Modern English, so 400-ish years ago).