The Professor and the Madman movie plot

2022-01-10 08:02
Dr. James Murraywas invited by Oxford University Press to compile the "Oxford English Dictionary". This is a huge project. It is impossible to collect hundreds of thousands of vocabulary with the efforts of a few people in the editing team. Dr. Murray, who is a commoner, pioneered the use of a model of participation by the whole people, so that all English speakers can work together. Collect the term definitions and mail them to the editing team. Although there is help from all the people, it is still difficult to compile. For more than two decades, the editing team has successively received more than 10,000 quotations from a doctor named Minerplayed-this kind of workload has surpassed that of professional scholars. When the first volume of the dictionary was published, Dr. Murray came to thank him and discovered that Dr. Miner was a military doctor during the American Civil War. He was imprisoned in a mental hospital because of schizophrenia   .
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  • Micaela 2022-04-24 07:01:17

    Some movies will make you learn more about the world.

  • Wilburn 2022-04-23 07:03:38

    It is more restrained and less difficult than the Korean dictionary, but it is still outstanding, and our Xinhua dictionary is inferior.

The Professor and the Madman quotes

  • James Murray: Who's she?

    Dr. William Chester Minor: The impossible.

    James Murray: The more impossible, the greater the love.

    Dr. William Chester Minor: Do you truly believe that? My heart is so sick.

    James Murray: Well... what I know of love is that the sickness often becomes the cure.

  • Ada Murray: Sometimes when we push away, that is when we most need to be resisted.

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