[Ads-l] 'Nonfiction novel" arrives at the West Indies

[Jonathan Lighter]

I may have mentioned elsewhere that I first heard "fiction novel" in 1969.

JL

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

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> > On Jun 8, 2015, at 9:13 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 8:15 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
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> >> "Fiction novel" is a nice retronym, up there with "analog watch", =3D
> >> "biological mother", and "World War I"
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> > "Frontlash, frontslash, frontwoods." I heard the last for the first =
> time
> > only today, though it's easily Googled back to the 19th C.
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> I've only heard the second of these (for a number of years now, pretty =
> much as soon as "backslash" became frequent).  But here's another =
> "front" that could be seen as both a kind of retronym and a...well, not =
> quite euphemism, but y'all can decide. I guess "inclusonym", since it's =
> devised to be avoid the exclusionary nature of its alternatives? Maybe =
> even a WOTY candidate, at least for "most outrageous".  =
> Introducing...the front hole! (And no, not for the gap supplied in men's =
> boxers and briefs.)
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> http://queerdictionary.tumblr.com/post/8726224260/front-hole-noun
> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/opinion/sunday/what-makes-a-woman.html
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> (Or you can NSFW-google it yourself.) Is this in the ATNW files yet?
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> LH
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> P.S. Speaking of which, are there any fronthoe sightings to add to =
> Wilson's collection?
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