Petra van Cronenburg<p>In my childhood, I often liked to read encyclopedias and dictionaries (yes, I read them like novels). They were travels to unknown continents!</p><p>Nowadays, I still use dictionaries to get a better feeling for words and contexts, their etymology and changes. My tip: Look at a completely ordinary word in a foreign language. <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amazing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">merriam-webster.com/dictionary</span><span class="invisible">/amazing</span></a><br>Machine translation is fine but you often miss these wonder worlds.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/dictionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictionaries</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/encyclopedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>encyclopedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/word" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>word</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/amazing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amazing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/adventureTravel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adventureTravel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>etymology</span></a></p>