DICTIONARY
A dictionary is a book or collection of words in a specific language, often listed alphabetically, with definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, and other information; or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, also known as a lexicon. According to Nielsen 2008 a dictionary may be regarded as a lexicographical product that is characterised by three significant features: (1) it has been prepared for one or more functions; (2) it contains data that have been selected for the purpose of fulfilling those functions; and (3) its lexicographic structures link and establish relationships between the data so that they can meet the needs of users and fulfil the functions of the dictionary.
Initial ideas:
1. make a “watch” dictionary in a shape of hand watch and with actual watch on top.
2. make a dictionary of Bernard Verber unique words, which he uses in his books (his specific termins).
3. make a dictionary of teeth care, stuff that could be used everyday to improve your smile.
4. make a dictionary of addictions.
AD:dictionary
By Madeline D. Price:
Addiction,
pure,
sweet,
untainted,
but real with the cold blue of
the darkest depth,
and alive,
with coursing neon orange.
Natural,
larger than life,
it stays,
a cloud above artificial.
Rushing,
Speeding,
coursing through the veins,
beating all the while.
Redder than blood, and
paler than the moon.
It pulses, it numbs.
Addiction,
each is pungent,
each is different.
Each flow, like the tide,
always present through some
invisible force.
Bright and surprising,
indefinable.
Not one person on earth can
resist the pull
of addiction,
addiction to love.
List of addictions:
1. internet
2. computer
3. video games
4. TV series
5. moves
6. drugs
7. healthy way of life
8. beauty(solarium, cosmetics)
9. body modify
10. chocolate
11. shops – shoes
12. fashion
13. smoking
14. alcohol
15. casino – gambling
16. adrenaline – extreme
17. reader
18. phone talking
19. music
20. smell
21. sport – action
22. cleanness
23. religiosity
24. fire – pyromania
25. pain
26. narcissism
27. love ad.
28. sexual ad.
29. money
30. work
31. power
32. crime
33. pornography ad.
34. pen clicking
35. teeth care
36. teddy bears
37. pink (color)
38. cheese
Caffeine Addicted
This little C8H10N4O2 molecule is the solution to, and source of, so many problems, very much like it’s friend, the C2H5OH.
Coffee was discovered in Ethiopia during the Stone Age, which is lucky, since a central nervous system stimulant like that would probably be outlawed if discovered today.
Caffeine consumption has become a daily ritual and addiction for many people, especially students. Caffeine exists in coffee, soda, tea, chocolate and energy drinks. Five common withdrawal systems are headache, fatigue or drowsiness, depression or irritability, difficulty in concentrating and flu like systems including nausea, muscle pain and stiffness.
OBsessive dictionary.
For the final piece I changed my idea a bit. I stopped on the dictionary of HUMAN OBSESSIONS. People do strange stuff from day to day through their whole life… some of them think that that’s normal, but actually that’s not…
The most common obsession is alphabetizing stuff, especially books, CDs, DVDs, etc. I’m the one who sometimes doing it, which makes my mom crazy, because she is classifying books by authors,collections and colors)
I hate the squares on the pavement! My friend is always speeding on them! For some people that becoming just a habit, for some that a real obsession. Everything goes wrong if they step on a stripe.
People are obsessed with dry, soft and just washed towels! They are changing them every time using a shower, even if they are taking it three or more times a day…
Cleaning the steering wheel – that my mom’s one. Every time before driving she cleans it with wet antibacterial wipes. Every single time!
Clicking obsession. Some people suppose that it’s deals with the stress or with the mental state of a person. Others just can’t stay without any, even small movement.
Counting stuff. I always count trees on the road when I’m bored… One tree.. two trees… three trees… I think that it’s relaxing in some way.
There are a lot of people obsessed with their teeth or their smile. My friend is gonna be a dentist and she is always talking about that stuff! She is using dental floss every time after food, clean her teeth with special ionizing brush, special dental paste, eating two apples a day which “keeps her teeth strong”….
This obsession was the starting one. I was told about a man who is actually entering the room three times, every single time. That’s ironically funny because he is a businessman and he isn’t supposed to be strange at work.
Licking the top of the yogurt. Some said that it’s the tastiest part of it, others think that it’s totally disgusting!
Never eat food after 5 p.m. That’s not a diet, that just a timing some people get used to. For them it’s even unnatural to eat at that time.
My friend can’t eat when someone is smoking around. She told me that she feels like she is actually eating cigarets. That’s strange for me: she is a smoker and I never felt the same.
Oh, Tony… this guy always pressing all the buttons in the elevator! Every time!!!
A strange common habit for smokers. They change the direction of one cigaret in each pack. Some say that that’s a lucky one, others making wishes. For me that’s still a strange obsession.
I heard of people who place stuff only on one side of a sink. In article I read that some psychologists suppose that it is a mental problem, which means that one part of human brain works much better then the other. Same stuff is happening when a person eat only from right side of a plate.
Obsession with rolling stuff after washing. I hate ironing it afterwards!
Sanitizer. Every half an hour… a person always have a feeling of dirty hands and trying to strugle with it.
Separating food items on different plates. May be those people don’t think about washing the dishes?!
Separating layers in food. That makes it tastier, or people can’t eat complex food.
Sitting only on the right sight of the sofa. My favorite character , Sheldon from “Big Bang Theory”, got something like that. He got his spot on the sofa!) From his point of view, that place was perfect for air conditioning, sunlight and got the most suitable for him temperature in the room)
SOCKS GO FIRST!)
Never store food in plastic. People buy food, bring it home and place on plates (get rid of plastic packaging) to store in the fridge. May be there is something dealing with recycling?
Talking to the TV. Some people feel lonely and the make friends with TV people. Others watching TV so much that the borders between reality and TV disappearing…
The toilet paper should be always rolling out in the direction opposite to wall. This is the obsession of people who created the hanger for it)
The other one is – making these cute triangles from the end of toilet paper like in the hotels.
Lots of people are doing it! Every time before sleep they are changing the pillow to the other side…
My friend is going mad when her mother buying blue washing stuff… But her mother for some reason hate and can’t use other ones.
I know the girl, who always writing with red or pink pens or pencils. No one ever saw her using the others!
My mum’s friend always use only yellow napkins, towels, toilet paper, kitchen rolls…
Strange one. Use the soap only once and then throw it away. My be it again a case of feeling dirty?
Washing hands every time passing the bathroom.
Wearing only black and dark blue clothes. Real one.
That’s strange, but my friend really know the girl, who was wearing shoes only once and then throwing them away. I’m not sure about expensive shoes, but still…
Lots of of people blog about this issue but you wrote down some true words!!