The following link points to a copy of a press release supposedly issued by an affiliate of Microsoft (but actually written as a parody by Ed Foster),...
Michael Hancher
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Jun 2, 2003 5:02 pm
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I can't send the attachment, but if you feel strongly about this, please do call/fax your senator. Luanne...
Luanne von Schneideme...
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Jun 2, 2003 7:56 pm
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I just received an interesting call from someone who is looking for an on-line version of Webster's 1928 dictionary. Does anyone know if this exists? Why...
Luanne von Schneideme...
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Jun 10, 2003 6:55 pm
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I wonder Webster's 1928 dictionary would have an entry called "Internet". If the home school students have religion concerns, we often recommend a print...
Here's the URL of a searchable web version of the 1828 American Dictionary of the English language, prepared by Christian Technologies: ...
jdespres@...
Jun 10, 2003 7:29 pm
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You could also point them to Webster's American Family Dictionary, a book published by Random House that panders--pardon me, caters-- to this audience. ...
Wendalyn Nichols
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Jun 10, 2003 10:48 pm
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To add a bit to what Joanne says (cc'd below), from experience on the Oxford American dictionaries . . . We were contacted in the late 90s by someone who...
Thanks for sharing your information, Frank. Perhaps I should have mentioned that Merriam gets many, many letters of the type Frank described, and answers them...
jdespres@...
Jun 13, 2003 1:56 pm
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But isn't there a point at which they refuse to open their minds to another point of view. In cases like that is there much point in continuing to try to...
Barnhart
Barnhart@...
Jun 13, 2003 3:25 pm
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Sure, there are plenty of folks who won't be persuaded by any argument. In those cases, you just do your best to explain the policy and, if they keep after...
jdespres@...
Jun 13, 2003 5:16 pm
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At the risk of upsetting people that I like and respect, let me comment on a point that Fred S raises below re (RH)HDAS . . . The presence of "citations" such...
I certainly do not agree that all slang is oral, and Frank contradicts himself in his own comment by alluding to bathroom graffiti and the like. But I don't...
Sidney Landau
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Jun 18, 2003 2:08 pm
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I have a naive question that I hope some experienced lexicographer can answer for me. The etymology for *dab* in the excellent *New Oxford Dictionary of...
Fraser Sutherland
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Jun 18, 2003 4:30 pm
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From Dick Bailey: "Newly elected DSNA Fellow Bob Lewis has received another honor. Now the Council of the British Academy has awarded him the Sir Israel ...
Luanne von Schneideme...
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Jun 18, 2003 4:42 pm
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... I certainly do not agree that all slang is oral, and Frank contradicts himself in his own comment by alluding to bathroom graffiti and the like. << I think...
The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology says ME "dabben" is "perhaps" related to ME "tappen which is conjectured to be of imitative origin." What I conclude from...
Sidney Landau
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Jun 19, 2003 1:42 pm
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I think the symbolic credentials of "dab" can only be speculated about, but the dictionaries would be clearer if instead of "symbolic" they said ...
Orin Hargraves
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Jun 19, 2003 2:44 pm
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I enjoyed Frank's original comments generally, not precisely speaking, i.e., without analyzing it clinically or critically, as quite erudite. I suppose much of...
Thomas M. Paikeday
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Jun 19, 2003 3:57 pm
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... But now I have a problem with the clarification that "all slang originates as oral." Don't all natural languages at all registers of usage (vulgar slang,...
... I agree wholeheartedly with Jonathon Green's response to Frank Abate's dismissal of the whole enterprise of historical lexicography of slang. I'll state my...
My particular perspective on historical slang-lexicography is that of a researcher whose work (and that which I edit) will be drawn upon by lexicographers. And...
Gerald Cohen
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Jun 19, 2003 11:30 pm
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Like Sidney, I don't think that slang is essentially oral. Most slang usage has been oral, because it is a feature of informal communication. Today more and...
Edward Gates
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Jun 20, 2003 2:05 am
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Like Sidney, I don't think that slang is essentially oral. Most slang usage has been oral, because it is a feature of informal communication. Today more and...
Edward Gates
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Jun 20, 2003 2:05 am
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Ed Gates makes some very good points in his comments on this thread. I ... Like Sidney, I don't think that slang is essentially oral. Most slang usage has...
I agree with Tom about context being essential to determining the register of "boob." In many cases, it would carry a far milder force than the f-word or the...
jdespres@...
Jun 20, 2003 2:46 pm
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Just to add two bits, slang isn't the only difficulty: I recall some flurry over B-B for which our earliest citation was much later than our belief of its...
c & r barnhart
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Jun 20, 2003 3:08 pm
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Here's a link to a BBC story about Google's attempts to stay out of the dictionary, featuring a quote from our own Mr. Landau: --Orin ...
Orin Hargraves
orinkh@...
Jun 20, 2003 4:28 pm
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Geoff N said, in reply to mine, what follows below. I think he may well be right -- things like "IMHO" and "btw" were invented for writing a sort of shorthand...
... I don't see any basis for the claim that slang (or language in general) is exclusively oral. << I never claimed this. I DID say that slang is oral in its...
Further to the recent "when is someone really dead?" thread, I just came across the aptly named "dead people server," which provides one-stop shopping for...
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