[Ads-l] Jesse Sheidlower's New Dictionary

[Jesse Sheidlower]

Oh, is that my rock band? I know my new-wave band is Future Perfect, and I think I have a newgrass band called Harsh Rural Dialect (I forget where this came from).

Anyway, thanks for noticing this; it's been a lot of work and a lot of fun. Also, it's absolutely a living thing; I've made dozens of changes and a few additions in the last two days, and will be continuing to add and revise, so if anyone has any comments of any kind, send them along! I've certainly incorporated a number of findings that were first posted here.

Jesse

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 01:43:05PM -0500, Laurence Horn wrote:
> 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:
> > 
> >> 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:
> >> 
> >> 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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