The Oxford Children's dictionary is getting dumbed down in a very tragic manner. It appears "raven" is getting offed in favor of "MP3 Player" (quoth the MP3 player, Nevermore!); where once we had a kingfisher, instead we have voicemail; and say adieu to the lonely beaver--we have shoved him out in favor of that omnipresent word so en vogue these days: tolerant.
How sad.
"What if the dilettante’s perpetual movement from one thing to another is
not a failure of nerve but a different and defensible way of being..."
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"... one whose exploratory zeal turns out to be just what a
hyper-specialised, over-optimised and all-too-serious world needs most?
Then the dilettante wou...
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