Interesting, But Disappointing: a Review of The Llanito Dictionaries
By Charles Durante
Dr Johnson famously wrote, ‘lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries: a harmless drudge.’ In the publication mentioned above we have four ‘drudges:’ Tito Vallejo-Smith, Manuel Cavilla, Johannes Kramer and Juan Manuel Ballesta Gómez, henceforth referred to as TVS, MC, JK, and JMBG, respectively. Though Johnson was being self-deprecatory, having himself devoted many hours to producing a massive dictionary, our ‘drudges’ are to be thanked for attempting to encode Llanito, collecting vocabulary, providing definitions and tracing provenance.
