[Ads-l] Reinhold Aman RIP

[Tim Stewart]

Sad news indeed. His *Maledicta *was an inspiration to me as a young
scholar of language. His work taught me that the pursuit of truth is ever a
noble endeavor.

Tim

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On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 12:36 PM George Thompson <george.thompson at nyu.edu>
wrote:

> Maledicta was panned thoroughly in TLS, no doubt 40 years ago.  I
> immediately opened a subscription for the library where I was working.
> Truly, there's no such thing as bad publicity.
>
> GAT
>
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 12:03 PM Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I recently learned that Reinhold Aman, the publisher of Maledicta ("The
> > International Journal of Verbal Aggression"), died last week at the age
> of
> > 82. Maledicta was a useful mix of scholarly and irreverent study of
> various
> > kinds of offensive language. Though his legacy is tarnished by his own
> > problematic behavior (he served a prison sentence for sending threatening
> > and extremely offensive materials relating to his divorce), it's
> > nonetheless the case that he was willing to explore difficult topics at a
> > time when serious, or indeed any, treatment of such language was not
> really
> > possible in academia.
> >
> > I hope to be writing a short essay about him for the Strong Language blog
> > in the next day or so.
> >
> > Jesse Sheidlower
> >
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>
> --
> George A. Thompson
> The Guy Who Still Looks Stuff Up in Books.
> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
> Univ. Pr., 1998.
>
> But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
> your lowly tomb. . .
> L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112
>
> The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
> picture of his great-grandfather.)
>
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