The Visual Dictionary

Friday, October 24th, 2008 | crass

There are some sites I just don’t understand. The Visual Dictionary is such a site.

When I first came across it I thought that perhaps it was a dictionary with pictures, so ‘apple’ would have a picture of an apple, ‘banana’ would have a picture of a banana, and so on. But no. It doesn’t work that way. In fact, in answer to the question of Why?, here is what the site owner has to say:

Good question – and not one we really have the answer to. It is just a nice idea which should be visually stimulating and interesting, but in time, once the dictionary has more words, there could be plenty of applications for the content, perhaps creating ‘ransom note’ style emails using images from the dictionary, delivering a word of the day, converting your text into images as you type – the ideas are unlimited.

Anyone have any ideas what they could do with this?

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