There was no apparent effort to match the part of speech in a headword/definition/usage sequence. Peckham clusters all parts of speech in a single entry without identifying the part of speech, and often two or more senses are simply different contributors' attempts to define the same sense. Headwords with multiple senses are especially frustrating. Headwords are a challenge - the singular and plural forms of nouns are used without apparent reason, active and passive forms of a verb are used, the past tense or participle form is often used instead of the infinitive for verbs, and articles are included in the headwords (a fifth under the letter A, da cheese under the letter D, and the breaL With Urban Dictionary, Peckham purports to record current street slang, selecting the "funniest, wittiest, and truest" entries from the website, promising the reader "street cred." Any hope that in book form Peckham would transcend the chaos and anarchy of the website is quickly dashed by the complete lack of editorial structure and lexicographical methodology. For a slang lexicographer, however, the open-source website is chaotic and inconsistent, and it serves at most as a starting point for terms that might be worth searching for elsewhere. It has become, Peckham claims, "the irreverent calling card of a linguistic generation." The website is popular with radio talk show hosts and journalists who are not inclined to consult acknowledged authorities on slang and who need a quick answer, right or wrong. , an online slang dictionary with user-submitted definitions, in 1999. A:aron Peckham, compiler of the Urban Didionary, launched urban. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:ฤก 78Reviews Urban Dictionary: Fuhrious Street Slang Defined.
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