Penn Professor Makes Linguistic Database, Describes It Terribly

An associate Penn professor of linguistics has apparently been hard at work developing a linguistic database that will allow users to view the roots of the words they look up, as well as related words in a number of languages. Cool, right?

Maybe not. Isn't that basically what a dictionary does? The layperson might think so, but the professor disagrees.

“It won’t be like looking at one dictionary,” Noyer says. “It will be like looking at 100 dictionaries at once and having them all immediately at your fingertips.”

That sounds great because every time we use a dictionary we think to ourselves "This is incredibly chill, but I wish I had a hundred dictionaries at the same time. I also want them at my fingertips. Thanks."