Dictionary of Fantastic Vocabulary by Greg Borenstein.
Alexis Lloyd tweeted this link along with:
This is utterly fantastic.
Well, it certainly increases the need for topic maps!
From the bot description on Twitter:
Generating new words with new meanings out of the atoms of English.
Ahem, are you sure about that?
Is a bot is generating meaning?
Or are readers conferring meaning on the new words as they are read?
If, as I contend, readers confer meaning, the utterance of every “new” word, opens up as many new meanings as there are readers of the “new” word.
Example of people conferring different meanings on a term?
Ask a dozen people what is meant by “shot” in:
It’s just a shot away
When Lisa Fischer breaks into her solo in:
(Best played loud.)
Differences in meanings make for funny moments, awkward pauses, blushes, in casual conversation.
What if the stakes are higher?
What if you need to produce (or destroy) all the emails by “bobby1.”
Is it enough to find some of them?
What have you looked for lately? Did you find all of it? Or only some of it?
New words appear everyday.
You are already behind. You will get further behind using search.