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Hollywood is a Verb:
Los Angeles Tackles the Oxford English Dictionary

February 8, 2016

A lexicographer’s work is never done, and writer Karl Ove Knausgaard describes language as ‘a social activity.’ In this short film by director Augusta Dayton, students of the 826LA writing program provide their own unique definitions of some quite familiar words. Commissioned by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and the Hammer Museum as part of Hollywood is a Verb: Los Angeles Tackles the Oxford English Dictionary

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