... Sydney, the problem with completing HDAS wasn't a problem of the electronic model disrupting the print model, which is what Lynch is asking about. I don't...
I do think that the fate of HDAS is in some ways related to the decline of print-based reference works. The work was commissioned back in the 1980s as a...
... Of course Wendi is right. Those are the larger industry changes that affected OUP thinking, too. It was caught up in a print model and had failed to really...
This sad news is being reported today: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/internet-blamed-as-chambers-hit-by-death-of-the-dictionary-1.920190 Wendi...
Indeed it is a sad day -- Chambers was one of the proudest and best- run dictionary houses in the English-speaking world, with a venerable history and its own...
Sidney Landau
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Sep 16, 2009 9:47 pm
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14th EURALEX International Congress. Third Call for Papers. Extended deadline! We take great pleasure in inviting you to take part in the 14th EURALEX ...
You can find a summary of the discussions at the public consultation on the proposals for Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru (Dictionary of the Welsh Language) that was...
Query on bilingual lexicography: At what date do bilingual dictionaries begin including American English hooker 'prostitute'? I'll be grateful for...
J P Maher
jpmaher@...
Oct 2, 2009 8:03 pm
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JP, for what it is worth, my En-Sp Oxford SuperLex 1994-96 (version1.1) includes it hooker / "hUk@r / n 1 (prostitute) prostituta f, puta f (vulg) 2...
F. Köhler, _Dictionary of the English and German Languages_ (31st ed.) (1894), p. 232 (via Google Books): <<hooker .... Matrosendirne f (Bewohnerin des...
Douglas G. Wilson
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Oct 3, 2009 7:01 am
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Dear Veronica Albin, Thanks. The late date is significant in the face of the claim that the sense 'prostitute' for hooker was common in America in the...
J P Maher
jpmaher@...
Oct 3, 2009 8:51 am
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Riddles from Arkansas Dear Doug Wilson, Thanks. You'll agree that Matrosendirne isn't generic 'prostitute', but 'sailors' tart'. Bartlett's entry would in any...
J P Maher
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Oct 3, 2009 10:37 am
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Did Mencken ever use or discuss hooker 'prostitute'? Not in The American Language or in In Defense of Women 1922, quite a wide open work. ...
J P Maher
jpmaher@...
Oct 3, 2009 11:14 am
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Riddles from Arkansas  I request translators to cite translations of hooker that were published between 1840 and 1950, as well as first publication of this...
J P Maher
jpmaher@...
Oct 3, 2009 4:43 pm
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Mencken, _The American Language_, Supp. II (1962), p. 682: just a brief mention; here "hooker" is purportedly jargon for "old prostitute". -- Doug Wilson...
Douglas G. Wilson
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Oct 4, 2009 1:04 am
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Thanks. This is probably Maurer, not Mencken himself. jp maher ... From: Douglas G. Wilson <douglas@...> Subject: Re: [DSNA] H. L. Mencken American Language...
J P Maher
jpmaher@...
Oct 4, 2009 3:32 am
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Again, not very useful, but I just dug out my Simon & Schuster 1973 En-Sp edition and it, too, includes it: 2. (jer., E.U.) ramera, prostituta Verónica Albin,...
Dear Veronica Albin Thanks. Oh, but it really IS helpful. All that needs to be added is to date the last dicionaries NOT to have hooker/puta and the first...
J P Maher
jpmaher@...
Oct 4, 2009 3:55 am
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-- What a mensch! What a maven! Wild Bill Safire boosted WMD into the thesaurus of BS. "On Language" by Pattering Poobah of Positive Pap was a war on language...
John Peter Maher
jpmaher@...
Oct 4, 2009 3:39 pm
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Yes, and on an ote of accidental humor, under today's column it says that he is "on hiatus" From: DSNA@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DSNA@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf...
Wachal, Robert S
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Oct 4, 2009 3:45 pm
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-- What a mensh! What a maven! Wild Bill Safire boosted WMD into the thesaurus of BS. "On Language" by Pattering Poobah of Positive Pap was a war on language...
John Peter Maher
jpmaher@...
Oct 4, 2009 4:45 pm
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I think, on the whole, you are being unkind about Safire. About his politics, I will say nothing, as I cannot defend them and do not understand them. About his...
Sidney Landau
slandau1755@...
Oct 5, 2009 2:00 am
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The Lingo of the Good-People when hooker ‘prostitute’ broke into public view. It’s the day of Bonnie and Clyde. David Maurer published it unobtrusively,...
John Peter Maher
jpmaher@...
Oct 5, 2009 4:48 am
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Many have stepped through the White House revolving door to a plum job in the media (George Stephanopoulos and Bill Moyers e.g.) Before the NY Times' Laptop...
J P Maher
jpmaher@...
Oct 5, 2009 5:27 am
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Confucius probably would have said something like, "He who analyzes wordsmiths, need only analyze words smithed -- not particular political policy positions."...
Dear Mr. Maher, I happen to respect William Safire's point of view and agree with it, particularly as regards the former Yugoslavia. I would prefer not to...
Andrea R. Nagy
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Oct 5, 2009 3:29 pm
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God statement, and I agree totally. Bob From: DSNA@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DSNA@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Sidney Landau Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 8:59...
Wachal, Robert S
robert-wachal@...
Oct 5, 2009 3:35 pm
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Kedves A. N. -- NYT mendaciously reported e.g. Dubrovnik as totally destroyed in December 1991. I went there and filmed it on 25 March 1992, three months...
J P Maher
jpmaher@...
Oct 5, 2009 3:50 pm
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Simply put, Safire pontificated on subjects in which he was not competent. jpm ... From: Wachal, Robert S <robert-wachal@...> Subject: RE: [DSNA] Obit...
J P Maher
jpmaher@...
Oct 5, 2009 5:41 pm
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Since my polemics on the politics as well as the linguistics of Wm Safire proved an irritation to many, I've decided after posting a URL on my Unhappy...
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