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- "It is often forgotten that (dictionaries) are artificial repositories, put together well after the languages they define. The roots of language are irrational and of a magical nature." -- Jorge Luis Borges, Prologue to "El otro, el mismo."
The dictionary is a list of words with their definitions.
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