"slang" and "informal" as dict labels

[Mark A Mandel]

        [James A. Landau]
#>Now every literary form has its share of dreck (SF writer Theodore Sturgeon
#>coined "Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap") and SF is no
#>exception.  However, partially due to the influence of John W. Campbell,

        [Larry Horn]
#wasn't that a riposte to Edmund Wilson's sneering claim that 90% of
#science fiction was crap?

See http://glinda.lrsm.upenn.edu/~weeks/misc/faq.html#slaw

(I hope that's right; I'm copying it by hand.)

-- Mark A. Mandel, The Filker With No Nickname
     http://world.std.com/~mam/filk.html
     Now on the Filker's Bardic Webring!