"idiocentric" and should it be in the OED [Was: Alasdair Gray mainly]

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Tue Jan 19 17:42:50 UTC 2010


At 1/19/2010 11:38 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>Well, I only found 9950 ghits for "idiocentric", but that's still a
>lot more than the one hit for "egosyncratic", to wit:
>
>
>Connectionist Model of Memory (SAN) & Intro to Images
>Organization of concepts in memory is egosyncratic, i.e. it is
>different from person to person.
>http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2002/cs3790_spring/.../index.html
>
>Those googlewhacky connectionists!

At least apparently they don't prefer to be called "correctionites".

Joel

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