On Friday, March 15, 2002, at 01:25 PM, David Starner wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 05:33:30AM +0900, Dan Kogai wrote: >> And the whole discussion of Tengwar sounds to >> me like Webster, Oxford, or American Heritage should add "kwijibo" into >> their vocabulary because Bart Simpson has used (I am relieved to find >> there is no "Unidict" !) > > Rather more like they should add "positronic" because Isaac Asimov used > it. > > It's in the OED. Asimov gets credit for both that and robotics. But that's only because other people picked up the word and ran with it. ========== John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/
