meta

[Tom Zurinskas]

Why is the OED better than thefreedictionary.com or m-w.com?  These are so kind has to give us sound files for pronunciation.  Does the OED do that?

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+ 
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> Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 09:22:42 -0400
> From: federicoescobarcordoba at GMAIL.COM
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> Paul is right, of course, about the XXL price of the OED's online
> subscription. It's just too much for an independent scholar or a language
> professional who doesn't have the sponsorship of a university. There should
> be a special price for unaffiliated suscriptions.
> 
> But, luckily, there's a middle ground, which I heartily recommend, and it's
> the CD-ROM version. The latest version is called "Oxford English Dictionary=
> ,
> 2nd Edition, Version 4.0," and it's available in Amazon for $214.57
> (discounted from $295.00). That's the one I use, and it works peachily. It
> won't include the meganewest entries drafted last month, but its search
> tools will help you find those words that are burrowed in other entries.
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> F.
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> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Paul Frank <paulfrank at post.harvard.edu>wrot=
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> > On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> wrote=
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> > > On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 08:49:33AM +0100, Paul Frank wrote:
> > >> Here's a word for your scholarly dissection: meta.
> > >>
> > >> Perhaps the most meta moment of the week. In the episode, Charlie
> > >> drinks beer on the couch and jokes about his "$2500 date experiences,"
> > >> while preparing to go out with the well-preserved dermatologist who
> > >> "scraped a pre-cancerous mole off my ass."
> > >> =C2 =C2 TV Guide, Oct 29, 2010
> > >>
> > >> The event proved a mass demonstration of noncommittal cleverness,
> > >> quirk and irony. Through signage, some rally-goers competed to be the
> > >> most topical ("One man's socialism is another man's uninformed
> > >> buzzword"), the most off-topical ("I love pineapples") and the most
> > >> meta ("I am holding a sign").
> > >> =C2 Washington Post, October 31.
> > >>
> > >> "Meta moment" gets 23,000 googlits.
> > >
> > > This is in OED; the first adjectival example is from 1988, the
> > > first noun from 1993.
> > >
> > > Jesse Sheidlower
> > > OED
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> > Thanks Jesse. You're talking me into forking out the money for a
> > subscription to the online edition, because half the time I don't find
> > what's hidden somewhere in the paper edition of the OED (and I do know
> > the alphabet). I guess that ".. oh look! A puppy!" is also in the OED
> > as a convenient phrase (or meme, if you will) to indicate a short
> > attention span. My favorite sign from this weekend's rally was carried
> > by a New Yorker: "Americans for ... oh look! A puppy!" - which speaks
> > volumes about the attention span of today's electorate and the media
> > that feeds it news and pseudo-news.
> >
> > Paul
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