This was sent to me to forward to the list; I hope it is of interest. Erin ... Electric Identity, LLC, a developer of language and culture related websites is...
In today's NY Times, there is brief obituary notice for Olga Coren, who died at the age of 89. She is identified as a lexicographer and crossword puzzle...
Sidney Landau
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Mar 6, 2008 7:16 pm
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Dear DSNA members Last year at Chicago I gave prior notice of the Australex conference being held in Wellington, New Zealand in 2008. The date is Thursday and ...
Dianne Bardsley
Dianne.Bardsley@...
Mar 18, 2008 12:30 am
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I'm putting together a paper for a computational linguistics workshop on cognitive aspects of the lexicon (enhancing the structure, indexes and entry points of...
Ken Litkowski
ken@...
Apr 2, 2008 5:34 pm
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I thought that people had given up asking about such matters. You might try to find something about George A. Miller. I am not sure he's still alive (he'd be...
Laurence Urdang
urdang@...
Apr 2, 2008 6:39 pm
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Associate Editor, Oxford Dictionaries, OUP-USA Oxford University Press is seeking an intelligent, organized, and literate Associate Editor to join our highly...
George A. Miller was still professor emeritus at Princeton last I checked, and he developed the very successful WordNet lexical database there, which is the...
Thanks, Martin. I've been friends with George for years. I've been primarily trying to find out what standard dictionary publishers are up to. (Doesn't seem...
Ken Litkowski
ken@...
Apr 3, 2008 8:26 pm
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Although it remains unacknowledged, the WordNet system was inspired by several longish conversations with George over dinner when he'd stop by for a visit on...
Laurence Urdang
urdang@...
Apr 4, 2008 6:49 pm
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... _*The first dictionary of its kind, drawn from four centuries of research in twenty-five languages *_ _AN ANALYTIC DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH ETYMOLOGY: An...
Hello. I just joined the list . . . I have a quick question. I saw the movie Bank Job, which takes place in 1971 in London. Some characters described others as...
Rebecca Shapiro
shapiro.becca@...
Apr 23, 2008 4:03 pm
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... Rebecca: Hi. It happens that I was working on a quote in Shakespeare this morning that he (Shakey) had the prescience to write in 1603 for you: FIRST LORD:...
Hi Scott, hi Rebecca: May I add that one could also say that "especially if it [the movie] was (NORTH) AMERICAN written of (NORTH) AMERICAN-played, it might...
Stefan Dollinger
dstefan@...
Apr 23, 2008 7:44 pm
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Stefan: You may have interpreted my use of "English-written" or "English-played" as referring to English generally, not British English. Actually, the...
Scott and everyone: Interesting, but I understood you precisely the way you meant it. British varieties. And I invite you to understand me and what I was...
dstefan
dstefan@...
Apr 23, 2008 9:32 pm
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WSC quote wording: as I remember it: "This is kind of arrant nonsense up with which I will not put." j p maher dstefan <dstefan@...> wrote: ...
J P Maher
jpmaher@...
Apr 23, 2008 10:03 pm
950
DSNA members may possibly be interested in two books that I have recently caused to be published through the excellent "Public Domain Reprints" service at...
Yes, Rebecca, Villains was often (formerly) used far more frequently in British speech than American to denote a naughty, naughty guy. Larry Rebecca Shapiro...
Laurence Urdang
urdang@...
Apr 24, 2008 12:05 pm
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The Churchill story is growing hoary and ought to be relegated to a Dolomitic stone carving. As for the British use of villain for 'thief, malfeasor, culprit,...
Laurence Urdang
urdang@...
Apr 24, 2008 12:50 pm
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Hello again--I checked, and the movie Bank Job was written by two Englishmen (not British), the actors were English (also not Brits), the director Australian...
Rebecca Shapiro
shapiro.becca@...
Apr 24, 2008 12:53 pm
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But the police is the US use "gentleman" with great, heaping portions of irony and the word "villain" doesn't seem to have an ironic cast to it in the...
Rebecca Shapiro
shapiro.becca@...
Apr 24, 2008 12:57 pm
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"by two Englishmen (not British), the actors were English (also not Brits)," Please do explain the difference to me. When I was a small child (in the 1920s)...
Laurence Urdang
urdang@...
Apr 24, 2008 1:00 pm
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But the police is the US use "gentleman" with great, heaping portions of irony and the word "villain" doesn't seem to have an ironic cast to it in the...
Laurence Urdang
urdang@...
Apr 24, 2008 1:28 pm
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I like that: "Dolomitic stone carving." The Dolomites are a gorgeous landscape, less visited by tourists than most of Italy. A little to the west is the...
J P Maher
jpmaher@...
Apr 24, 2008 1:40 pm
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JP I really enjoyed the exegesis on my reference, which popped into a synapse unexpectedly, a non infrequent occurrence in these octogenarian days. LU J P...
Laurence Urdang
urdang@...
Apr 24, 2008 5:52 pm
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The Dolomites are where I'd like to live. At least I'd have like to before all the "progress" of the past 50 years. The name of the rock formation called...
J P Maher
jpmaher@...
Apr 24, 2008 6:44 pm
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Larry, et al: Still chuckling over the comments. Yes, "hoary" works, but Rebecca may have encountered the quote fewer than ten times. I almost used the...
As a speaker of British-English, my feeling is that it is a reasonably common usage. I would probably only use it jocularly, but the OED also lists it as...
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