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870 Grant Barrett
MoNickels Send Email
Jun 15, 2007
7:10 pm
I am forwarding this job because it seems of interest to our crowd, but I am not doing the hiring and know nothing about the job. Use the email address given...
871 Sidney Landau
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Jun 18, 2007
3:48 pm
I want to thank Erin McKean on behalf of all of those who attended the just-concluded conference for her splendid work in preparing for it. I also want to...
872 Grant Barrett
MoNickels Send Email
Jun 18, 2007
4:13 pm
Hear hear! Erin is a master musterer of people and processes. I would put her in charge of armies. David Barnhart did thank Erin early in the conference from...
873 Joan H. Hall
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Jun 18, 2007
4:35 pm
Yes, indeed--huge thanks to Erin! It was a great conference all the way around.The silent auction was a wonderful addition to the festivities, but I'm sure it...
874 pheacock@... Send Email Jun 18, 2007
5:05 pm
Thanks, Sidney, for reminding us all of the etiquette we no doubt learned while in knee-pants, to thank the host for all her efforts. So yes: Thank You Erin....
875 John Peter Maher
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Jun 18, 2007
8:28 pm
Sidney Landau himslf deserves the thanks of all of us callous heels who have not already thanked Erin McKean. (John) Peter Maher Sidney Landau...
876 Dianne Bardsley
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Jun 19, 2007
1:12 am
Yes, I fully support all those who have thanked Erin on this site, even though I thanked her in person. Although I am new to these conferences, I found that...
877 tpratt@... Send Email Jun 19, 2007
4:03 pm
I am, upon reflection, particularly the one who should have thought to thank Erin publicly at the end, even though the end was rushed. I'm grateful to Sidney,...
878 bolstar1 Send Email Jun 20, 2007
11:07 pm
DSNA'ers: Erin made a good point to the group on Sat. night about the importance of `coining,' per se, not really being an important aspect of lexicography. I...
879 Gilles-Maurice de Sch...
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Jun 27, 2007
12:17 am
June 27, 2007: TshwaneDJe HLT announces the release of TshwaneLex Suite 3.0 TshwaneLex 3.0 is now available. This version contains many new features, and is...
880 anne dykstra
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Jun 28, 2007
8:42 am
Dear All, For Euralex (http://www.euralex.org) I set up the International Bibliography of Lexicography. Its URL is http://euralex.pbwiki.com. Its motto is...
881 Scott Nelson
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Jun 29, 2007
4:34 pm
“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit." Is this the use of antistrophe or chiasmus? Well, here the use, or frequency of use, would take precedence over any...
882 bolstar1 Send Email Jul 3, 2007
5:44 pm
DSNA'ers: I've found in my compilation of phrases, idioms, & expressions that it's rather a tricky business categorizing types – due largely to the...
883 bolstar1 Send Email Jul 5, 2007
5:56 pm
This post will address a type of utterance that has only descriptive references -- not a general tag-type, and certainly not a category in the pantheon of...
884 bolstar1 Send Email Jul 7, 2007
4:28 pm
Which is Corpus Conundrum Corpus Conundrus #1 Fellow word-people. I want to mention a point about the values of, and difficulties of, using corpora, as it...
885 Sidney Landau
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Jul 7, 2007
8:19 pm
We should all in the debt of Patrick Hanks for his superb obituary of John Sinclair in the latest edition of IJL. It gives just recognition to a giant in our...
886 Laurence Urdang
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Jul 8, 2007
12:37 pm
Having worked in both British and American English quite extensively, I am aware of the differences in style, and, in some cases, offer only that the practices...
887 bolstar1 Send Email Jul 8, 2007
7:43 pm
Laurence: Laurence: Nice to get your reply. Good points, and I don't differ with you on any of them. I meant to add, regarding Shakespeare, that Evans wrote of...
888 Laurence Urdang
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Jul 9, 2007
2:19 pm
Scott, A couple of quick, minor points: 1. I see little difficulty with the semicolon used to separate items in a list beginning with a colon; in this case, a...
889 bolstar1 Send Email Jul 9, 2007
4:43 pm
Corpus Conundrum #2 (Stress and Intonation) Stress and intonation – these are two aspects of phonetics that are given short shrift in dictionaries (other...
890 Luanne von Schneideme...
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Jul 10, 2007
3:23 am
Dear DSNA Colleagues, As you probably know, the transition in the position of Executive Secretary of the DSNA is well underway. Lisa Berglund is taking over...
891 anne dykstra
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Jul 11, 2007
5:47 pm
Hello to you all, Thanks to the generosity of Dr Reinhard R.K. Hartmann the International Bibliography of Lexicography has made a major step forward. Dr ...
892 bkipfer Send Email Jul 16, 2007
6:02 pm
Hello. Can anyone point me in the right direction on the topic of the selection process for dictionary words to be (visually)illustrated? Thank you....
893 Orin K. Hargraves
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Jul 17, 2007
11:13 am
Hi Barbara, In my experience this is usually handled as a "separate exercise," in the hands of a single editor, either in-house or contracted out. I have...
894 Barnhart
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Jul 17, 2007
12:45 pm
Dear Barbara, I seem to recall that there was a peper about illustrations in the Century by someone in Dictionaries (mid 1990's). Regards, David B. ...
895 Coleman, Dr J.M.
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Jul 19, 2007
9:30 am
Dear Barbara, If you'll forgive me for citing a book I was involved with, you might be interested in Thora van Male's 'From Incipit to Iconophor' in ...
896 Coleman, Dr J.M.
coleman_julie Send Email
Jul 19, 2007
10:01 am
Apologies for cross-posting Dear all, There's a possibility of an 9/10 month fellowship in my department for a researcher with less than 8 years post-doctoral...
897 Luanne von Schneideme...
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Jul 24, 2007
3:38 pm
I've posted some pictures of the Chicago meeting, good for about a month. The following link should get you there. You have been issued the following ticket:...
898 Bethany Dumas
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Jul 24, 2007
4:39 pm
Thanks, Luanne. I tried to look at one image, but got this message: Available bandwidth quota for this filesystem has been exceeded. ...
899 Michael Hancher
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Jul 25, 2007
2:58 am
Thanks, Luanne -- some great snapshots there. I've posted all of two myself, at http://picasaweb.google.com/cmhancher/DSNA2007Chicago?authkey=YjdGcvQUT_w --...
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