Re: Exhibit Coverage Continues!
| From: | <morphemeaddict@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 9, 2008, 7:03 |
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In a message dated 6/9/2008 01:58:08 AM Central Daylight Time,
rick@HARRISON.NET writes:
> On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 18:27:30 -0700, Donald Boozer <donaldboozer@...>
> wrote:
>
> >My "conlanging evangelism crusade" of 2008 continues. The exhibit and I
> have been
> highlighted in an article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer (the major newspaper
> of NE Ohio).
>
> It is a nice article, congratulations.
>
> I wonder if you would consider sending a clipping of the article to the
> editors of the
> Merriam-Webster dictionary, along with a note asking them to consider adding
> the word
> "conlang" to the dictionary? I wonder how many times a word has to appear in
> print before
> they are willing to add it.
>
I just did a google search on "conlang" and got 7310 hits. I expected one to
two orders of magnitude more than that.
When will appearance in print (I mean only hard copy) cease being a
determining factor, and frequency of usage on the internet take its place?
stevo </HTML>
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