Open post Bee Ostrowsky @beeostrowsky@tech.lgbt · 5mo ago Replying to @jessesheidlower@mastodon.social <p>Two small but fascinating <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fandom" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fandom</span></a> antedatings for the Historical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dictionary</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a>, for "loc" 'letter of comment':</p><p>The noun by 1 year, first appearing in text written in Japanese by English speakers (thanks to @erikas.online for her help with this):</p><p><a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/1892/loc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">sfdictionary.com/view/1892/loc</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>And the verb, also by 1 year to 1961, in a poem by Roger Ebert. Yes, *that* Roger Ebert!</p><p><a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/2343/loc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">sfdictionary.com/view/2343/loc</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p> @jessesheidlower@mastodon.social you might want to add #page=8 to the end of the Ebert URL
Open post Bee Ostrowsky @beeostrowsky@tech.lgbt · 7mo ago Replying to @jessesheidlower@mastodon.social <p>Important post by Jeff Prucher (editor of the Hugo-winning Brave New Words) about developing a corpus of fanzines to find antedatings for the Historical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dictionary</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a>. (I'll be publishing these in due course.) Interesting for DH as well as SF people!</p><p><a href="https://medium.com/@jprucher/adventures-in-the-data-mines-antedating-fanspeak-afb246dce8f5" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/@jprucher/adventure</span><span class="invisible">s-in-the-data-mines-antedating-fanspeak-afb246dce8f5</span></a></p> @jessesheidlower Wow! I still enjoy doing it the old-fashioned way, but this looks powerful.
Open post Bee Ostrowsky @beeostrowsky@tech.lgbt · 6mo ago Replying to @jessesheidlower@mastodon.social <p>Incredibly trivial antedating for the Historical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dictionary</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a>: "ish", an issue (of a periodical), from November 1937 to October 1937. But, bonus Esperanto context!</p><p><a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/1526/ish" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">sfdictionary.com/view/1526/ish</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p> @jessesheidlower@mastodon.social Good heavens. ‘Scientificuric’? 4ese baffles me sometimes.
Open post Bee Ostrowsky @beeostrowsky@tech.lgbt · 5mo ago Replying to @jessesheidlower@mastodon.social <p>As promised, some more big "filk" antedates for the Historical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dictionary</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ScienceFiction</span></a>: "filk" v. from 1978 to 1962; "filker" from 1981 to (the same) 1962, & "filking" from 1983 to 1976. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fandom" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fandom</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/1005/filk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">sfdictionary.com/view/1005/filk</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br /><a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/181/filker" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sfdictionary.com/view/181/filk</span><span class="invisible">er</span></a><br /><a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/1361/filking" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sfdictionary.com/view/1361/fil</span><span class="invisible">king</span></a></p> @jessesheidlower@mastodon.social I understand filknik but I've never seen it before!