[Ads-l] antedating mundane

[Laurence Horn]

So, a term for the complement of the presupposed subset, like “straight” or “gentile”. Who knew?


> On May 18, 2020, at 9:14 PM, Bill Mullins <amcombill at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> The OED SF Project has 1950 for the genre sense of "mundane" (adj.) (the OED has 1955).
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> _The Acolyte_ Summer 1944 p.14
> https://archive.org/details/TheAcolyte07V02n031944Summer/page/n17/mode/1up/<https://archive.org/details/TheAcolyte07V02n031944Summer/page/n17/mode/1up/search/hugo>
> "And on top of it all, [H. P. Lovecraft] did create remarkably faithful and sound mundane backgrounds and personalities."
> (Typically, "mundane" would be "that which is not SF"; here it is "that which is not weird".)
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