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From: horton@fortune.UUCP (Randy Horton)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: The Literature of Ideas
Message-ID: <5557@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 19:41:51 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 17 19:41:51 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Sep-85 03:54:05 EDT
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Reply-To: horton@fortune.UUCP (Randy horton)
Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA
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Summary: 

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>To me, "SF" means what we point to and say "that's SF."  (Does anyone
>out there know who came up with that definition?  I'm sure I read it
>somewhere...)

I could easily be wrong, but I believe that this was originated by
S.I. Hayakawa in his book *Language in Thought and Action*.  If not originated
then perhaps first popularized.

By the way, for people interested in Language and meanings of words, this book
is reccomended readig.


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