[Ads-l] Jesse Sheidlower's New Dictionary

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Geoff: Thanks for sharing those glowing reviews of the Historical
Dictionary of Science Fiction. Jesse kindly granted me a preview of
the spectacular work he has assembled. It is a wondrous gift and
valuable tool for the SF and futurist communities.

Jesse should win a Hugo and a Nebula. The many people who contributed
citations to the project also deserve recognition.

Garson

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 2:21 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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