Zusammenfassung der Ressource
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What is lexicography?
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What's the designated term for a person who works in the field of lexicography?
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Which is the best job description for someone who works in lexicography?
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write, edit, print dictionaries
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study language corpuses, write dictionaries
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study language corpuses, write, edit and compile dictionaries
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What does a corpus comprise?
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written texts
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texts in digital form: books, newspapers, blogs, etc.
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texts, videos, conversations
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What's a vital requirement for contributing to a corpus?
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Is this type of job very known/popular?
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Do lexicographers need to be experts in grammar and spelling?
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Lexicographers are very open-minded about grammar
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Not really. They are grammar purists.
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No, but they are very good at it.
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Yes, they are. They can't be judgmental about it.
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Can lexicographers be opinionated about language use?
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Yes, they need to be hypercrytical
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No. They put their opinions aside
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No, but they make contributions to it
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What is 1 thing lexicographers get to do?
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study fun and interesting ways of describing a word
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stalk people on social media
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judge people's language use