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Comments on MetaFilter post "I love the idea of witnessing the birth of that word."Mon, 27 May 2013 22:20:33 -0800Mon, 27 May 2013 22:20:33 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60"I love the idea of witnessing the birth of that word."
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"In 1872 two men began work on a lexicon of words of Asian origin used by the British in India. Since its publication the 1,000-page dictionary has never been out of print and a new edition is due out next year. What accounts for its enduring appeal?
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18796493">Hobson-Jobson is the dictionary's short and mysterious title.</a>" <br /><br />Dictionaries are pretty weird! How could a dictionary, reasearched, written, printed, contain words that are used today? <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2013/mar/11/why-we-need-invent-new-words">Why we need to invent new words</a>! Or you could consult <a href="http://www.the-emotionary.com/">The Emotionary</a>, "Words that don't exist for feelings that do</a>." (<a href="http://www.fastcocreate.com/1682994/peniccism-penitent-narcissism-and-other-new-names-for-those-weird-feelings-you-have">via</a>)post:www.metafilter.com,2013:site.128464Mon, 27 May 2013 21:47:03 -0800the man of twists and turnswordwordslanguagelinguisticsdictionaryBy: idiopath
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<a href="http://archive.org/stream/hobsonjobsonbein00yuleuoft#page/n7/mode/2up">Hobson-Jobson is online</a>comment:www.metafilter.com,2013:site.128464-5001180Mon, 27 May 2013 22:20:33 -0800idiopathBy: splitpeasoup
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I find it more interesting to note words which are so common in English today, including American English, that many people wouldn't even know they owe their origin to Indian languages: shampoo, jungle, loot, pajamas, pariah, atoll, cushy, khaki, dungarees (not to mention the more obvious guru, pundit, avatar, etc).comment:www.metafilter.com,2013:site.128464-5001191Mon, 27 May 2013 22:45:49 -0800splitpeasoupBy: oonh
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While working for <a href="http://artfl-project.uchicago.edu/">ARTFL</a>, I *wrote* a data input spec for this dictionary as part of <a href="http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/">The Digital Dictionaries of South Asia</a>. (I also ended up writing one for the Platts Urdu dictionary) -- the dictionary was keyed in elsewhere and we made a <a href="http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/hobsonjobson/">searchable version of the Hobson-Jobson.</a> from that keyed in data.comment:www.metafilter.com,2013:site.128464-5001194Mon, 27 May 2013 22:47:18 -0800oonhBy: iamkimiam
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This article has activated sing-songy rhyme-time in my noggin'.
<small>Let the itsby-bitsy hee-haw begin.</small>comment:www.metafilter.com,2013:site.128464-5001269Tue, 28 May 2013 01:03:44 -0800iamkimiamBy: 23
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I couldn't find seersucker; do you know if it's in there or what it's under?comment:www.metafilter.com,2013:site.128464-5001299Tue, 28 May 2013 01:59:08 -080023By: infini
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Is this not a double? No, not at all, good lord! Good to see its finally here!comment:www.metafilter.com,2013:site.128464-5001317Tue, 28 May 2013 02:31:00 -0800infiniBy: infini
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Hobson Jobson's current day influence:
Dear Sir,
In accordance with the agreements reached during our telecon of Friday last, we are deeply grateful to be given the opportunity to submit our proposal for your perusal and consideration.
Humbly,
Yrs truly, etccomment:www.metafilter.com,2013:site.128464-5001318Tue, 28 May 2013 02:32:33 -0800infiniBy: the cydonian
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The list of words from India in the article doesn't list all letters. Here are the missing ones:
E - <a href="http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/ekdam">ek dum</a>
F - <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/firangi">firangi</a>
I - Indigo
M - mongoose
O - out-station
Q - Qazi
U - Unani
W - wallah
X - <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/xeraphim">Xeraphim</a> (had to look this one up)
Z - zenanacomment:www.metafilter.com,2013:site.128464-5001347Tue, 28 May 2013 04:34:20 -0800the cydonianBy: erniepan
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<i> Why we need to invent new words</i>
Oh, God, not Snigglets again.comment:www.metafilter.com,2013:site.128464-5001544Tue, 28 May 2013 07:43:46 -0800erniepanBy: MoTLD
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This was really interesting! Thanks!
My only complaint is how ridiculous I found some of the words in the invent new words article. They seemed to have briefly mentioned and then forgotten that for a new word to be useful or catch on, the word(s) it replaces in the chosen example must be <em>more</em> cumbersome than the invented word. ;)comment:www.metafilter.com,2013:site.128464-5005180Wed, 29 May 2013 22:45:02 -0800MoTLD
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