ADS-L Digest - 9 Apr 2007 to 10 Apr 2007 (#2007-101)

[Amy West]

I'm pretty sure that I just spotted "siteseeing" in an academic CFP.

Yes, yes, I did!

Here's the cite:

"Proposals for individual presentations or panels are invited for the
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
International Meeting scheduled for Reykjavik, Iceland, July 31, 2007
through August 4, 2007. Sessions will be held on Tuesday, Thursday,
and Saturday with Wednesday and Friday open for siteseeing and
excursions." ---PCA/ACA International Meetings CFP; picked up at the
National PCA/ACA conference in Boston, April4-7, 2006.

---Amy West

>Date:    Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:30:58 -0700
>From:    "Arnold M. Zwicky" <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU>
>Subject: Re: site seeing
>
>On Apr 8, 2007, at 1:29 PM, James Harbeck wrote:
>
>>  I'm pretty sure I'm seeing "site seeing" and "seeing the sites"
>>  rather more often than "sightseeing" and "seeing the sights" now. No
>>  doubt the use of "site" in web parlance has an important effect on
>>  this, although the phrase is always used in reference to seeing
>>  actual places, never websites.
>
>not in the ecdb.
>
>most of the webhits for "site-seeing" and "see the sites" are, not
>surprisingly, about websites.  the "see the sites" hits for actual
>places (a walk through Newark, a walk through Queens, etc.) can be
>understood as literally referring to sites -- places of historical or
>cultural interest.  anybody have good cites (hah!) where this
>interpretation is unlikely?
>
>arnold

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