[Lexicog] Phrase -- Long Word, With Gaps

[Fritz Goerling]

Sounds good and very ambitious. 

It would demand lots of context just to distinguish between the "synonymous"
phrasings of '(get) angry.'

Fritz Goerling

 

Scott Nelson wrote:

But phrases are an odd bird, and are subject to more of the "you-
have-to-be-there experience" than simple grammar and vocabulary. This 
contextual learning, versus memorization learning, takes space (on 
paper, as well as in the flesh). 

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This is another reason, amongst many, I'm waiting with bated 
breath for a true e-reference world. And this, not merely to be able 
to append (via link-clicks) cursory treatments of single-word 
definitions,  .but to include . degrees of 
emotion/emphasis/vulgarity/politeness, appropriateness in differing 
contexts, exemplative and real-world uses, synonyms and synonymous 
phrasing (e.g. `(get) angry' = 1) see red 2) go through the roof 
3) (be) as mad as a hornet 4) have a hissy fit 4) lose one's 
cool/one's temper...the list goes on and on.). 

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