Images and video (!) of commentary from the OED. (Gaming)

by Funkmon , Friday, June 03, 2016, 03:53 (3096 days ago) @ ZackDark

Dictionaries with commentary sounds pretty damn cool, if space-consuming. On paper, I would hate them, but given our digital means, I want it everywhere.

You'd think the commentary would be nice on the PC, but the dictionary with the most commentary, the OED, it's much much worse than on paper.

Here's the OED entry for dog. The image is so large I literally cannot capture the entire webpage, so here's a video of me scrolling through it. If you change it to 720p at 60fps you can read it and pause as it goes.

This is what the top of that entry looks like.

But on paper, it's much simpler. I have a compact, earlier edition of the OED in only three volumes, down from the current 23 volumes, but the print is small.

Commentary on dog. Much more manageable.