First of all, only currently closed threads will be eligible for the ANC. Which ones, yet, are not determined, but most likely Natter, Music, and the Show/Spoiler Threads. Bitches will not be one of the threads (too much personal info). Unamericans/Canadians will not be included, either (supposed to be for American English). FanFiction and San Sacre will not be included (too hard to separate fiction from nonfiction).

Doesn't sound like B'cracy would be included and we don't have a archived Light Bulbs thread.

Got it. Although it would be somewhat cool if the posts about using posts for the post project were used for the post project.

Maybe just to me.

I think erinaceous just wants to put us in a lab and do experiments on us.

Which, on the whole, I'm in favor of.

I think erinaceous just wants to put us in a lab and do experiments on us.

the nice thing about being a linguist is that the whole world is your lab! Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha.

I am not sure whether the anonymization is total (all user names revert to USER NAME) or whether it's USER 42. I'll ask.

As erinaceous sets off another fierce round of numberslutting...

Is there any chance that our quotes would end up in a publication of any kind, like an academic journal of linguistics or anything? I ask because it'd make a difference whether I opt in or not. I'm fine with one or a dozen random researchers reading about how my relationship history influences my reading of Buffy's in the show threads, or all my gripes about work in Natter. I'm not sure I'd feel the same about my posts being quoted in a journal and read by lots of people in the field.

Which is stupid of me, because of course ANYBODY could find this completely public forum and who knows how many lurkers know all about me, but there it is.

I think erinaceous just wants to put us in a lab and do experiments on us.

She does have a rather Fred vibe. Do the AtS writers know her?

I'm verra fond of my user number so that would be shiny.

who knows how many lurkers know all about me

Knowing the world of academic journal publishing, probably far more than would ever read about you through journal articles.

Is there any chance that our quotes would end up in a publication of any kind, like an academic journal of linguistics or anything?

This is possible, although not incredibly likely. It would be probably a computational or corpus linguistics journal, and would most likely show up as a Key Word In Context, or KWIC. So if the word was 'foamy,' for example, 'foamy' would show up in the middle of fewer than twenty words, like this:

and Legolas is incredibly foamy, and now PERSONAL NAME's going to kill me with her pinky finger

I can't imagine that there would be any more context than that. There would probably be at least five and maybe as many as thirty OTHER 'foamy' quotes around yours, as well.

edited to show anonymizing ...

Would Legolas need to opt in?