LEXICOGRAPHY

It is Sunday morning. Darkness still surrounding the house I was by five o:clock chasing "I" around the yard. The newspaper delivery upset her. So in turn I am sure she upset the neighbors as she zipped around the yard looking for intruders, barking at the top of her lungs. Of course the delivery people was across the street, but that fact irritated her too. She would like nobody to come near the house, especially in the dark.

U watched a movie last night where the the girl, played by Jennifer Aniston went around writing strange words on walls. Later it showed someone looking up the definition of a person who says and writes strange words. I could not see to read along with them. It drove me crazy. I went to bed thinking about it, wondering what the word was. I awoke in the night thinking about it. I got up at 4:30 and googled it. The word is called lexicography.

She wrote many of these words behind pictures at fancy hotels. She loved words that were different and strange.I understand this as being people who study these new words, put them to together and also make words for dictionary's.

Now how cool is that? Being able to study and make new words. Also to make a dictionary. I would like to get into that field. I could make a whole new language up and use it. Language according to Billye it might be called. Doesn't that have a zing to it?

Words have always fascinated me. Maybe that's why I always loved to write. For there has always been so many words captured in my head. But I really have no aptitude for knowing strange and exotic words. I must try to learn some. Then maybe I will scoot around to fancy places, lifting pictures from the wall by a corner and scribbling the word safely away. Og course anyone seeing the word would have to find a dictionary to learn the meaning. But we all could get much smarter that way.

Well I have sort of went off the deep edge this morning. Rambling on about a topic that probably is no interest to anyone. But I have been thinking about it for the last ten hours and needed to get it off my chest. So a Blog I find can be a handy thing to have. I will try tomorrow to be a little more sane. Remember I said try. But for now I will tote my bag of words over my shoulder and stroll out of Blogland. So I'm outta here for today. The definition of Lexicography is as follows.

A lexicographer is concerned with what words are, what they mean, how the vocabulary of a language is structured, how speakers of the language use and understand the words, how the words evolved, and what relationships exist between words. This is the information a lexicographer compiles when creating a dictionary.

Theoretical lexicography is the scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language, developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries, the needs for information by users in specific types of situation, and how users may best access the data incorporated in printed and electronic dictionaries. This is sometimes referred to as 'metalexicography'.
A person devoted to lexicography is called a lexicographer.