Don't you just love this party? Everything's so fancy, and there's some kind of hot cheese over there.

Kaylee ,'Shindig'


Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer  

A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.

Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych


DXMachina - Jan 26, 2004 3:50:09 am PST #6659 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Who was that masked man? He left a silver jacket...


erinaceous - Jan 26, 2004 9:19:17 am PST #6660 of 10005
A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.

Okay, I finally have the ANC/Buffistas Influence English proposal written up. Will you erudite and logical people read it over and then I guess it goes to Lightbulbs?

THANK YOU!

BTW, the ANC folks are THRILLED by all this. It's as if they were entomologists and I had said, "Oh, I have all these uncatalogued bugs in my uncle's basement. Tons of 'em. Let me see if he'll let you look at 'em." Also, I found out that half of the board of the ANC are Buffy fans!

Proposal:

I propose that the board agree to individual members allowing their posts to be added to the American National Corpus, in order to further language scholarship and research (and not incidentally make it easier to get ‘foamy’ in the dictionary).

Information on the ANC is here; [link]

How will it work?

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).

Secondly, individual posters have to opt in by sending me an email, the text of which is below (linky goodness should also happen here), giving permission. You do not have to use your real name to give permission, only your user name.

Thirdly, I (erinaceous) will be doing the stripping out of non-opt-in-ers, so no UnBuffista eyes will see the data until posts from people who don’t want their posts included in the ANC have been removed.

Fourthly, the posts, once in the hands of the ANC, will be further anonymized: all screen names and personal names will be replaced by tags that say "SCREEN NAME" and "PERSONAL NAME", essentially.

The posts will be part of a 200 million word corpus of American English, used mainly by language researchers and lexicographers to figure out how people actually write and speak. It’s difficult to get online material that is both reasonably good English (although of course I think the Buffistas are more than reasonably good writers of English!) and organized enough to be of value. Contributing your posts will help to advance language research in the U.S. a great deal.

TEXT OF PERMISSION EMAIL: By submitting this e-mail, I, _______________ (user name), hereby grant to the American National Corpus Consortium (ANCC), a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free license to use, reformat, reproduce, and distribute through the Linguistic Data Consortium of the University of Pennsylvania, in electronic form or any and all media hereinafter developed, my anonymized posts to the Phoenix Board/Buffistas.org as part of a collection of American English-language material. I agree to the terms of use (outlined here: [link] and understand that the collection will be made available to others for the purposes of linguistic education, research, and development.


Jesse - Jan 26, 2004 9:21:58 am PST #6661 of 10005
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Second!!


Nilly - Jan 26, 2004 9:22:49 am PST #6662 of 10005
Swouncing

Second Third.


Aims - Jan 26, 2004 9:24:05 am PST #6663 of 10005
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Fourth


DXMachina - Jan 26, 2004 9:25:53 am PST #6664 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Fifth.


DXMachina - Jan 26, 2004 9:26:08 am PST #6665 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Number!


RobertH - Jan 26, 2004 9:33:15 am PST #6666 of 10005
Disaffected college student

That's some creepy post-number/post-content symmetry.

Oh, and, uh, seventh, I guess.


Steph L. - Jan 26, 2004 9:36:47 am PST #6667 of 10005
I look more rad than Lutheranism

How many seconds do we need?

Because I second (eighth, whatever) it.


Jesse - Jan 26, 2004 9:38:35 am PST #6668 of 10005
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I believe we just need four seconds. To Lightbulbs, ahoy!