[Ads-l] Jesse Sheidlower's New Dictionary

[Mark Mandel]

HOORAY!!!!

Mark Mandel, lifelong word nerd and sf fan

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021, 1:59 PM Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> wrote:

> 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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