Oddly enough, although I ran across this bit doing some sf research -- Au Contraire, the upcoming New Zealand national convention -- the subject has nothing to do with sf.

Hate to tell you, chum, but what your background page calls an infinity symbol comes out in Unicode as a yen sign, Japanese currency:
  On its side the number eight becomes the ( Read more... )

See http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/mamandel/public/Conomastics/

(written, and now posted, in connection with the work mentioned in previous entry but one, Conomastics)

© thnidu 
after "The Naming of Cats" by T. S. Eliot° and  "The Naming of Cons" by Rick Moen
The Naming of Cons is a difficult matter,
It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a con must have ( Read more... )

The PowerPoint file of my presentation on the naming of cons (see previous post) is up for download at http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/~mamandel/public/onomastics/Conomastics/

[edit:]  See also the next post but one, The Naming of Cons.

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