3.546 Notes and Queries (96)
Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Thu, 5 Oct 89 18:50:54 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 546. Thursday, 5 Oct 1989.
(1) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 89 21:19:43 EDT (18 lines)
From: cbf@faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Re: 3.542 Notes and Queries (37)
(2) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 89 21:20:32 EDT (5 lines)
From: cbf@faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Re: 3.542 Notes and Queries (37)
(3) Date: Wed, 04 Oct 89 20:23:41 PDT (9 lines)
From: DONWEBB@CALSTATE (Donald Webb)
Subject: Techkknik(ie)s?
(4) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 89 00:16:00 EDT (11 lines)
From: <HALPORNJ@IUBACS>
Subject: TECHIES AND TECHNIKS
(5) Date: Thu, 05 Oct 89 09:21:01 PLT (18 lines)
From: Paul Brians <HRC$04@WSUVM1>
Subject: Nuclear Texts & Contexts newsletter
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Date: Wed, 4 Oct 89 21:19:43 EDT
From: cbf@faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Re: 3.542 Notes and Queries (37)
Re tekkie, techie, technik. You don't need a semeotician
so much as a historical linguistic. We've got two competing
suffixes, one of which has deep roots in English while the
other owes its popularity to sputnik, thence beatnik, and
so on down the line. Tekkie vs. techie is simply phonetic
vs. etymological spelling. Which will win out? Like any
good linguist, I refuse to prognosticate.
Charles B. Faulhaber
Department of Spanish
UC Berkeley CA 94720
bitnet: ked@ucbgarne
internet: cbf@faulhaber.berkeley.edu
telephone: (415) 642-2107
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Date: Wed, 4 Oct 89 21:20:32 EDT
From: cbf@faulhaber.Berkeley.EDU (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Re: 3.542 Notes and Queries (37)
Read semiotician and historical linguist.
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Date: Wed, 04 Oct 89 20:23:41 PDT
From: DONWEBB@CALSTATE (Donald Webb)
Subject: Techkknik(ie)s?
Techies? Technies? Tekkies? Techniks? Techkkniks? Can even a semiotician
(semioticist? semiotekkie?) interpret this? How about an emoticon
(vocaticon?), e.g. :-!?)... But perhaps reserved to those, uh, whatever they
call themselves, who smoke cigars... Any more ideas?
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Date: Thu, 5 Oct 89 00:16:00 EDT
From: <HALPORNJ@IUBACS>
Subject: TECHIES AND TECHNIKS
In reply to LNGDANAP@GUELPH (sorry, I didn't catch your name or
institutional connection), those who use "niks" are probably over 40,
New Yorkers, and users of what Leo Rosten calls "Yinglish." (Rosten's latest
book "The Joys of Yinglish" is reviewed in the NY Times Book Review, 10-8-89,
p. 11). Those who use "ies" are probably under 40, TV addicts, and in-
fluenced by the California Valley Girls.
Jim Halporn, Indiana U., a "nik-nik," or possibly "nudnik." HALPORNJ@IUBACS.
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Date: Thu, 05 Oct 89 09:21:01 PLT
From: Paul Brians <HRC$04@WSUVM1>
Subject: Nuclear Texts & Contexts newsletter
I'll see how far the N&Q section of HUMANIST can be stretched: I publish
a newsletter (in PageMaker on the Macintosh) entitled "Nuclear Texts &
Contexts," which is the official publication of the International
Society for the Study of Nuclear Texts and Contexts," and which covers
nuclear issues in language and literature (fiction depicting nuclear
war, nuclear thrillers, defense analysis language theory, the rhetoric
of "nuclearism," etc. It strikes me technically-oriented humanists
such as use this board might be interested in our work. The latest issue
features three book reviews, several bibliographies, and an article by
a Romanian scholar on nuclear war themes in Eastern European science
fiction. For subscription info write William Scheick, ISSNTC
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