: New revision strategy announced by OED editors

[Scot LaFaive]

"I hear the gay culture is now using genetic computers to develop a race of
supermen."

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu>
wrote:

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> On Mar 13, 2008, at 8:47 AM, Joel Berson wrote:
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> > My mailing from the "Oxford English Dictionary Online Update" has
> > apparently been censored.  It has in the i.e. list (which of course
> > should be e.g., unless they're saying something really interesting)
> > merely
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> > computer, culture, gay, and genetic.
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> > I'm also disappointed they did not use all 5 words in a single
> > sentence.
>
> fuck gay culture: get a genetic computer!
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