[Ads-l] antedating mundane

[Mark Mandel]

I did. I've been active in sf fandom for 30 years.

MAM


On Mon, May 18, 2020, 9:35 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

> So, a term for the complement of the presupposed subset, like “straight”
> or “gentile”. Who knew?
>
>
> > On May 18, 2020, at 9:14 PM, Bill Mullins <amcombill at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > The OED SF Project has 1950 for the genre sense of "mundane" (adj.) (the
> OED has 1955).
> >
> > _The Acolyte_ Summer 1944 p.14
> >
> https://archive.org/details/TheAcolyte07V02n031944Summer/page/n17/mode/1up/
> <
> https://archive.org/details/TheAcolyte07V02n031944Summer/page/n17/mode/1up/search/hugo
> >
> > "And on top of it all, [H. P. Lovecraft] did create remarkably faithful
> and sound mundane backgrounds and personalities."
> > (Typically, "mundane" would be "that which is not SF"; here it is "that
> which is not weird".)
> >
> >
>

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