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jjmoney62	Post subject: Inconceivable Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 10:23 am
Joined: Mon Apr 08, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 3135 Location: Albuquerque, N.M. USA	AUSTIN MONTHLY MAGAZINE, the leading lifestyle magazine of Austin, has an immediate opening for an editor. The editor concepts, develops, assigns, writes, edits and closes “text” each issue. The responsibilities include but are not limited to: • Concept and develop editorial content. .... (Link)
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moab	Post subject: Re: Inconceivable Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 1:44 pm
Joined: Sat Mar 22, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 190	jjmoney62 wrote: AUSTIN MONTHLY MAGAZINE, the leading lifestyle magazine of Austin, has an immediate opening for an editor. The editor concepts, develops, assigns, writes, edits and closes “text” each issue. The responsibilities include but are not limited to: • Concept and develop editorial content. .... (Link) Requiring someone to conceive on the job would be illegal, I suppose.
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longwords	Post subject: Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:26 pm
Joined: Fri May 06, 2005 8:31 pm Posts: 552 Location: Pennsylvania	Language Log has a link to a new blog at Oxford University Press with information about ***concepting*** and its search for a berth in the dictionary. The blogger is Ben Zimmer: Quote: That’s the true test of whether lexicographers think a new word should get some space on a dictionary page: are people using it in a variety of contexts, and does it look like it’s sticking around for a while? Lobbying campaigns for a particular term don’t work without proof that a broad array of people are actually making use of the word and will probably continue to do so. (Oxford English Dictionary editor-at-large Jesse Sheidlower discussed one such campaign in Slate last year, when a copywriter launched a quixotic quest to get dictionary recognition for his pet word concepting.) Then there was this later section of the blog. Brace yourselves, testy editors, for ever wider acceptance of "mic:" Quote: Everyone likes being on the ground floor of a new phenomenon, and neologisms are no exception. At the recent biennial conference of the Dictionary Society of North America in Chicago, conference organizer (and OUP chief consulting editor for American dictionaries) Erin McKean invited members of the public to bring their coinages to a “New Word Open Mic,” with a panel of lexicographers weighing in on which words seemed to have the best odds for making it into a dictionary some day.
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gdcfa	Post subject: Re: Inconceivable Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 6:06 am
Joined: Fri Jun 02, 2006 10:16 am Posts: 190 Location: Canada, eh?	moab wrote: Requiring someone to conceive on the job would be illegal, I suppose. Odd? Yes. Unconventional? Certainly. Uncomfortable to many? No doubt. Illegal? On what grounds?
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Dapper Dan	Post subject: Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:35 pm
Joined: Fri Dec 12, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 273	On the grounds of sexual harassment, I'd imagine. But I am not a lawyer.
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Wayne Countryman	Post subject: Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 6:41 pm
Joined: Mon Apr 08, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1775 Location: Baltimore	In the case of men, discrimination.
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