benzimmer.bsky.social
Linguist, lexicographer, language commentator, all-around word nut. https://linktr.ee/benzimmer
👤 Joined on 24 May 2023
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@benzimmer.bsky.socialTo celebrate pub day for paperback of my book UNABRIDGED, here’s an outtake about one really weird definition
Show PostOh smokes my mom had that in her library when I was growing up. I used to read through it with the little magnifying glass it came with.
Show Postthe scene where they're in a Japanese restaurant that's playing "Ue o Muite Arukō"/"Sukiyaki" takes place in March 1962, when the song had been a huge hit in Japan but hadn't been released in the US. Is the restaurant supposed to have imported a 45?
Show PostAnd yet, the props department went out of their way to locate this first edition of "SOMETHING" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Show PostI can outniche that. In the first episode, set in 1960, they have IBM Selectric typewriters on all the desks. The Selectric wasn't introduced until 1961! Why do I know this? That has to do with my own tech origin story, the details of which are too boring to share here. @deargodwhaat.bsky.social
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