[Ads-l] Jesse Sheidlower's New Dictionary

[Laurence Horn]

From the Times review:

The dictionary is the latest in a series of eclectic projects for Sheidlower, a former editor at large at the Oxford English Dictionary who first came to prominence in the 1990s, as part of a new generation of lexicographers injecting the field with a fresh nerd-cool factor.

The Nerd-Cool Factor, which you may recall from Jesse’s eponymous rock-band…


LH

> On Jan 27, 2021, at 12:58 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Not even I knew about this.
> 
> Good work, Jesse!
> 
> JL
> 
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 12:14 PM Geoffrey Nathan <geoffnathan at wayne.edu>
> wrote:
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>> I'm assuming that most of us know this, but
>> just in case, our own Jesse Sheidlower has
>> just released an online Historical Dictionary of
>> Science Fiction. It can be found here:
>> 
>> https://sfdictionary.com/
>> 
>> and there's a great review in Wired, here:
>> 
>> https://bit.ly/2M1oVpa
>> 
>> and another in the New York Times:
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>> https://nyti.ms/2YmX45f
>> 
>> Geoff
>> 
>> Geoffrey S. Nathan
>> WSU Information Privacy Officer (Retired)
>> Emeritus Professor, Linguistics Program
>> https://clasprofiles.wayne.edu/profile/an6993
>> geoffnathan at wayne.edu
>> 
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