[Air-l] levels of jargon

[Caroline Haythornthwaite]

Oh but Barry, where has Richard Dean Anderson been more recently seen -- 
let's see what community (and its jargon) we belong to now!  /C

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>Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:16:56 -0500
>From: Barry Wellman <wellman at chass.utoronto.ca>  
>Subject: [Air-l] levels of jargon  
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>PS: An amusing piece of ageist writing is getting edited out of a paper
>that Jennifer Kayahara and I are writing, "Searching for Leisure". The
>editor has asked that we take out the term "MacGyver" on the grounds that
>young scholars would be unaware of that great 1985+ TV show where Richard
>Dean Anderson saved himself weekly from dire situations by do-it-yourself
>tricks. If you're under 40, see:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088559/
>
> Barry
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Caroline Haythornthwaite
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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