Hunting Good Language With Bad Language (From a Dictionary)

Sometimes you know the dictionary probably doesn’t have it right, but all you need is enough bad language to hunt a “correction” (good language) from a fluent speaker.

Text resources (phrasebooks, dictionaries, vocabulary lists, etc) are famous for being misleading (we’ve all probably had the experience of learning “classroom” language that nobody speaks on the street), but if you have a cooperative speaker, and you can “set up” a clear, obvious situation, “misleading” language is just what you need to get things rolling!

http://languagehunters.org