[Ads-l] "Dead-tree"

[Parish, James]

Thanks for the responses. I may have something to tell my students, come 
Monday.

Jim Parish

On 10/27/2018 4:00 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> Nice citations in the Wiktionary entry, taking the noun back to '85 and the
> adjective to '86. That antedates the OED (Mar. '07 draft addition to the
> "dead" entry), which has the noun from '91 and the adjective from '95. The
> edit history shows our own Hugo VK contributed the '85 cite.
>
> 1985 Jul 23: Thomas Johnsson, DECUS public domain C compiler: where can I
> get it? (signature), net.lang.c
> "Mail on dead trees: Dept. of CS, Chalmers University of Technology, S-412
> 96 Goteborg, Sweden"
>
> 1986 Apr 15: Barry Shein, Re: job control, net.unix-wizards
> "My question is basically do you need better on-line programs to search the
> docs ..., or actually different dead-tree style."
>
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 4:48 PM Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It sounds normal to me, but perhaps is losing currency as a new generation
>> grows up in which non-dead-tree forms are not novel.
>>
>> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dead_tree#English <
>> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dead_tree#English>
>> https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/dead_tree <
>> https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/dead_tree>
>>
>> BB
>>
>>> On 27 Oct 2018, at 13:45, Parish, James <jparish at SIUE.EDU> wrote:
>>>
>>> This may have been discussed on-list before; if so, my apologies.
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, I posted a take-home midterm for one of my classes, and
>>> informed the students that I would accept "either electronic or
>>> dead-tree" versions of their work. They found "dead-tree" vastly
>>> amusing, and my attempt to justify my use of the words even more so.
>>> (The phrase "perfectly standard... slang" played a role.)
>>>
>>> In some of the circles I move in, "dead-tree" is the usual adjective
>>> used to describe non-electronic texts. I don't know, however, how
>>> widespread the use is. What say you?
>>
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