I'm all for it and will opt in ... not that I've posted that much, but, hey.
How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious.
Wash ,'Objects In Space'
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JenP - Jan 26, 2004 5:36:05 pm PST #3415 of 10289
meara - Jan 26, 2004 5:51:33 pm PST #3416 of 10289
Um, I generally pronounce meara something like "meera". Maybe with a little more a in the middle. But not "may-are-uh".
But as a verb, it's not really up to me...;)
Gus - Jan 26, 2004 6:57:15 pm PST #3417 of 10289
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Any effort that might result in 'bwah' being in a dictionary is fine by me.
Susan W. - Jan 26, 2004 7:28:33 pm PST #3418 of 10289
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
erin, are you by any chance looking for multiple clever, literate internet communities to study? Because if so, I have a feeling my DH's main online community might be up for donating some of their archives. At least, I'm sure he'd think it was cool enough to want to present it to them.
Connie Neil - Jan 26, 2004 8:50:01 pm PST #3419 of 10289
brillig
In favor of, will opt-in for, don't care if you use my name (I know I'm in the minority), would love to see Bitches included, but, oh, well. How old of threads will be used?
Beverly - Jan 26, 2004 8:50:38 pm PST #3420 of 10289
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I'm in, permission-wise. Not that I'm a prolific poster, nor have been. Still, in.
Cashmere - Jan 26, 2004 10:59:14 pm PST #3421 of 10289
Now tagless for your comfort.
I'll opt in and I have to say, I'm pretty excited about the prospects of the project.
erinaceous - Jan 27, 2004 5:33:42 am PST #3422 of 10289
A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.
Susan, let's see how many K of text we get out of the Buffistas, and then I might follow up with you.
One of the cool things about the ANC is that it's a balanced corpus, so that there's not too much of any one kind of text. It's not all novels, or all newspapers, or all spoiler threads ...
Thank you for the offer!
Susan W. - Jan 27, 2004 6:38:09 am PST #3423 of 10289
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
You're welcome--I thought of it because I was reading some messages DH had forwarded me months ago and thinking about the contrasts in how his group plays with language, etc.
Sean K - Jan 27, 2004 7:51:22 am PST #3424 of 10289
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I'm fully in support of this proposal, and intend to opt in.
I do have a question, though...
Erin, you mentioned that $PERSON NAME will be stripped, and not make its way into the lexicon. Is there any way to make some kind of a footnote about the usage of $PERSON NAME as a verb? We're not even close to the first set of people to do something like that, and even if specific words aren't common enough to be included in a dictionary, that specific form of usage seems to be getting more and more common, and worthy of some kind of note. So I just wonder.