Monday, June 1, 2009

dirty words

I've commented elsewhere on some of the words in linguistics which sound hilariously dirty: labials, fricatives, copular verbs, and so on. So now in the interest of being fair, I'm going to list some dirty-sounding words from my other passion, the library world:
  • collocation
  • depth indexing
  • full entry
  • fuzzy set
  • subject entry
  • syndetic structure
No joke, these are all real terms from the field of librarianship. Don't you wish you were a librarian?
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3 comments:

  1. UnknownJune 1, 2009 at 5:48 PM

    What is a "fuzzy set"?

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  2. billyJune 1, 2009 at 8:50 PM

    Fuzzy set is a mathematical concept used in infometrics and information retrieval when dealing with vague situations.

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  3. JuniperJune 4, 2009 at 6:11 PM

    Once again, hilarious!

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