Oxford Dictionary Does Science Fiction

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 11, 2001 @05:41PM from the narfle-the-garthag dept.

Embedded Geek writes: "The News Log for Locus has an item about the Oxford English Dictionary's attempt to capture unique words and phrases used in various fields. It has begun with a pilot site for science fiction. Specifically, they are looking for published uses of specific words in Science Fiction, SF Criticism, and SF Fandom. The goal is not to create a glossary of terms but rather find the earliest (antedating), latest (postdating), and intermediate (interdating) uses of these words already in the dictionary in books, magazines, etc. They are soliciting help from the public in this effort. Presumably, if this effort is a success, they will begin working on other fields: other literature, programming, open source... who knows?"

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w007! by Lord+Bitman · 2001-12-11 19:58 · Score: 0, Offtopic

l337 d1c710n4r1!

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Re:Do you really want to work on this? by ErikZ · 2001-12-12 01:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Well, go ahead. Nobody's stopping you.

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I'm sure Hindis would disagree... by darylp · 2001-12-12 01:20 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It's been around a LOT longer, used to describe an incarnation of Vishnu in the Hindu mythos.