I have old dictionaries...and old history books...for a reason
I’ve got a 1966 Encyclopedia Britannica.
The science is great.
Looked up hermaphrodite. Got a straight answer, no politics.
Mao was still loved in 1966.
All the flags are in there, on color plates.
Hope it does not fall overboard from my houseboat.
Yes, I do too and I purposely seek out certain materials because things are being destroyed or re-vised to fit a political agenda. For example, read materials written in 1965 - 1968 about the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles. Don’t bother going to Wikipedia - you’ll get a sanitized, politically correct version. Or don’t bother with the newer articles that “help” explain Watts. Comparing Watts to demonkrap controlled Minneapolis 2020 begs the question - why are we still in the same place despite all the “improvements”?
Keep em’ safe.
The mob wants to burn those.
Same here. My 'new' (40 years young) Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary is one of my stand-bys, known in its day for its prescriptionism...
...along with a forty-year-old Random House Unabridged (not so prescriptive, but thorough), also a sturdy and reliable American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language....
...plus the great and grave Webster's 2nd New International, and finally the fascinating if relatively unused OED.
My toys have held up somewhat better than the world around them.
Same here. My 'new' (40 years young) Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary is one of my stand-bys, known in its day for its prescriptionism...
...along with a forty-year-old Random House Unabridged (not so prescriptive, but thorough), also an American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, plus...
the great and grave Webster's 2nd New International, and finally the fascinating but relatively unused OED.
My toys have held up somewhat better than the world around them.
As Orwell said, "Language makes humans easy to control: control their language and you control the people."