"slang" and "informal" as dict labels

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:05 PM -0500 2/17/03, James A. Landau wrote:
>
>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,

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

Larry