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Major Update For OED Science Fiction Project

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the actually-done-in-2319-via-time-machine dept.

ColdChrist writes "The Oxford English Dictionary Science Fiction project was last reported on here back in March 2004. The site has been redesigned and relaunched; the biggest change is that the OED's database of citations of SF words is now made (mostly) available via the website. The OED (a nonprofit organization) does not usually make its work available in this way, but OED has agreed to publicly open up this part of its database to acknowledge the great contribution volunteers have made to this project. That means that if you contribute a cite, it's viewable by everyone; see here for more details. Also, quite a few more words are being added from an internal pending list."

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  1. Update on Science Fiction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    It still wont get you laid.

  2. hoo boy by aendeuryu · · Score: 5, Funny

    I grok the pain his webserver is going to feel.

  3. I hope that embiggens someones heart by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    enough to write some cromulent sci-fi.

  4. Damn by Yeshua · · Score: 5, Funny

    How are we going to maintain our separation from society (or should I say elitism) if anyone can just look up what the hell we mean??

  5. Re:OED is not ready for /. by jephthah · · Score: 5, Funny

    and to top it off, they neglected to include Vulcan, Klingon, Romulan, or even Elvish in their multi-lingual Page Not Found notices...

  6. Pity the rest of the OED isn't online by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because then the person who contributed this story could see that 'cite' is a verb, not a noun. "Contribute a cite"! Ugh!

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    1. Re:Pity the rest of the OED isn't online by RobotRunAmok · · Score: 2, Funny

      Because then the person who contributed this story could see that 'cite' is a verb, not a noun. "Contribute a cite"! Ugh!

      D00d, the person who contributed this story is probably hard at work right now "architecting a Website" with another "knowledge-worker." Cut him some slack...