Q: Dating slang; denerdify (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Shapiro, Fred]

Chicago Tribune

July 19, 1989, Wednesday, NORTH SPORTS FINAL EDITION

SECTION: TEMPO; Pg. 1; ZONE: C

LENGTH: 1899 words

HEADLINE: Under the gun
ROTC shoots down 'nerd' image by giving students a tough summer-school lesson

BYLINE: By Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune

DATELINE: FT. LEWIS, Wash.

BODY:

... rule of military psychology was operating full force. These units of the 14th Infantry are part of Major Gen. Robert Wagner's pet project.

"When Wagner took charge," Hausman explained to a reporter, "he took as his mission to de-nerdify the ROTC. To get rid of the image of pimply faced kids with slide rules hanging from their belts."



Fred Shapiro







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Subject: Re: Q: Dating slang; denerdify (UNCLASSIFIED)

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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

"Wild parties, love triangles, sex-crazed aspiring actors-- online soap
operas are arriving to denerdify the Internet."

> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society
> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Joel S. Berson
> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 12:48 PM
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> Subject: Re: Q: Dating slang; denerdify
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> Poster:       "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
> Subject:      Re: Q: Dating slang; denerdify
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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
>
> 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
> >
> >Joel
> >
> >At 10/19/2008 12:55 PM, Chris Waigl wrote:
> >>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> >>
> >>On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:52:22 -0400, "Joel S. Berson"
> <Berson at ATT.NET>
> >>wrote:
> >> >
> >> > 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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