Q: Dating slang; denerdify (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Wilson Gray]

Oh. I thought that you meant, "slang used between people who are dating."

Well, I didn't have a reply, in any case.

-Wilson

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
<Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
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> From Time magazine as found via ProQuest
> "Cyberspace, 90210"
> Bellafante, Ginia. Time. New York: Mar 4, 1996. Vol. 147, Iss. 10;  pg.
> 65
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> "Wild parties, love triangles, sex-crazed aspiring actors-- online soap
> operas are arriving to denerdify the Internet."
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>> Chris, please forgive me for neglecting to thank you in my
>> previous message.  Google Groups has been useful:  I've also
>> just found "denerdify" in 1996 (in quotes).  Too bad it
>> doesn't permit wildcards.
>>
>> And thanks also, Fred.
>>
>> Joel
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>> At 10/19/2008 01:37 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>> >The ordering seems to be reverse chronological?
>> >
>> >Trying this and successively narrowing the end date, however, the
>> >earliest hit I get is Jan. 29, 1985 (even when I tell Google
>> to stop at
>> >1984!):  http://tinyurl.com/5zdcra
>> >
>> >http://groups.google.com/group/net.bizarre/browse_thread/thre
>> ad/be9f624
>> >15a300042/a9c9a4a9f3eafbea?hl=en&lnk=st&q=engrish#a9c9a4a9f3eafbea
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>> >Joel
>> >
>> >At 10/19/2008 12:55 PM, Chris Waigl wrote:
>> >>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
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>> >>On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:52:22 -0400, "Joel S. Berson"
>> <Berson at ATT.NET>
>> >>wrote:
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>> >> > Where would I look (Internet preferably) to find datings
>> for early
>> >> > use of recent English words, such as "Engrish" and "denerdify"?
>> >>
>> >>One quick and cheap way of doing this is using Google
>> Groups search.
>> >>You can restrict your search to a date interval and order
>> results by
>> >>date (a bit dodgy, I've found).
>> >>
>> >>'Engrish' first shows up in 1996 (http://tinyurl.com/6rfojq).
>> >>
>> >>Chris Waigl
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