http://blog.oup.com/2010/03/culprit/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:31:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2010/03/culprit/#comment-156972 Unpleasant People. Part 2: Scoundrel : OUPblog Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:21:53 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=7709#comment-156972 [...] culprit, discussed last week, scoundrel surfaced in English books in the modern period. The OED has no [...] [...] culprit, discussed last week, scoundrel surfaced in English books in the modern period. The OED has no [...]

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2010/03/culprit/#comment-156958 Dr Kevin Cooper Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:17:18 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=7709#comment-156958 A very interesting and a detailed etymological analysis ! A very interesting and a detailed etymological analysis !

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2010/03/culprit/#comment-156913 Richard Lock Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:39:25 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=7709#comment-156913 TTFN was used on BBC radio in the 1940s, particularly in a show called ITMA (aka "It's That Man Again") featuring Tommy Handley. Whether it was current before that I couldn't say, but it was certainly widely used then ... and still is, jokingly, for people of my generation TTFN was used on BBC radio in the 1940s, particularly in a show called ITMA (aka “It’s That Man Again”) featuring Tommy Handley. Whether it was current before that I couldn’t say, but it was certainly widely used then … and still is, jokingly, for people of my generation

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2010/03/culprit/#comment-156907 Fabius Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:10:19 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=7709#comment-156907 LOL is very much alive (at least in my day-to-day use of Twitter, email, etc). BTW, very interesting post, IMHO! LOL is very much alive (at least in my day-to-day use of Twitter, email, etc).
BTW, very interesting post, IMHO!

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2010/03/culprit/#comment-156900 John Cowan Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:26:12 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=7709#comment-156900 "Short-lived?" Ain't dead yet, as Justice Thurgood Marshall supposedly said to President Reagan in response to a tentative Presidential inquiry about his retirement plans. If you meant "recently coined", I can't pinpoint a specific year when LOL and its relatives AFK (away from keyboard), OIC (oh, I see), and TTFN (ta-ta for now) began to be used on Compuserve and GEnie, but certainly by the mid-80s. The oldest version of the Jargon File that lists them is dated 1990; see http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/oldversions/jarg211.txt , s.v. <i>talk mode</i>. “Short-lived?” Ain’t dead yet, as Justice Thurgood Marshall supposedly said to President Reagan in response to a tentative Presidential inquiry about his retirement plans. If you meant “recently coined”, I can’t pinpoint a specific year when LOL and its relatives AFK (away from keyboard), OIC (oh, I see), and TTFN (ta-ta for now) began to be used on Compuserve and GEnie, but certainly by the mid-80s. The oldest version of the Jargon File that lists them is dated 1990; see http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/oldversions/jarg211.txt , s.v. talk mode.

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