http://pastispresent.org/2010/aas-glossary/call-for-co-editors-for-an-aas-glossary/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed an online forum for early American discussion, discovery, and diversion from the American Antiquarian Society Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:34:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://pastispresent.org/2010/aas-glossary/call-for-co-editors-for-an-aas-glossary/comment-page-1/#comment-1590 Are you Rip-Van-Winkleish? « PastIsPresent.org Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:59:49 +0000 http://pastispresent.org/?p=2910#comment-1590 [...] suggested starting an AAS Glossary, one of Past is Present’s quick-witted readers posted a hillarious comment about an undergraduate student misinterpreting the term “intercourse” in its [...] [...] suggested starting an AAS Glossary, one of Past is Present’s quick-witted readers posted a hillarious comment about an undergraduate student misinterpreting the term “intercourse” in its [...]

]]> http://pastispresent.org/2010/aas-glossary/call-for-co-editors-for-an-aas-glossary/comment-page-1/#comment-768 Elizabeth Watts Pope Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:18:43 +0000 http://pastispresent.org/?p=2910#comment-768 Great idea, Jackie! We should definitely do a post on "Entertaining Historical Terminology." Anyone else have some good ones? Great idea, Jackie! We should definitely do a post on “Entertaining Historical Terminology.” Anyone else have some good ones?

]]> http://pastispresent.org/2010/aas-glossary/call-for-co-editors-for-an-aas-glossary/comment-page-1/#comment-766 Chelsea White Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:05:22 +0000 http://pastispresent.org/?p=2910#comment-766 Ghosts?! Now this one I must learn. Ghosts?! Now this one I must learn.

]]> http://pastispresent.org/2010/aas-glossary/call-for-co-editors-for-an-aas-glossary/comment-page-1/#comment-765 Jackie Dooley Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:46:45 +0000 http://pastispresent.org/?p=2910#comment-765 Drat! When I started reading, I thought you were going to compile a glossary of entertaining historical terminology. One of my personal favorites, which I once had the opportunity to explain to an undergrad in the UC Irvine reading room (while failing to stifle my guffaws): intercourse = conversation. He thought the people being described in an 18th-c. newspaper essay were doing it in the street. :) Drat! When I started reading, I thought you were going to compile a glossary of entertaining historical terminology. One of my personal favorites, which I once had the opportunity to explain to an undergrad in the UC Irvine reading room (while failing to stifle my guffaws): intercourse = conversation. He thought the people being described in an 18th-c. newspaper essay were doing it in the street.

]]> http://pastispresent.org/2010/aas-glossary/call-for-co-editors-for-an-aas-glossary/comment-page-1/#comment-764 Jonathan S. Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:33:35 +0000 http://pastispresent.org/?p=2910#comment-764 How about an explication of the fine fine line between "Games - Fun" and "Games - Educational"? How about an explication of the fine fine line between “Games – Fun” and “Games – Educational”?

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