: New revision strategy announced by OED editors

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:55 AM -0500 3/13/08, Scot LaFaive wrote:
>"I hear the gay culture is now using genetic computers to develop a race of
>supermen."

But that's only four of the words from the original list (computer,
culture, fuck, gay, and genetic).  Luckily, adding the fifth will
prove trivial, and those supermen shouldn't mind--all you need is
cybersex.

LH

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>On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu>
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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.
>>  >
>>  > I'm also disappointed they did not use all 5 words in a single
>>  > sentence.
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>>  fuck gay culture: get a genetic computer!
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