This episode we talk with Erin McKean, founder of online dictionary Wordnik, about her history of processing and analyzing words with NeXT boxes, OS/2, and the Mac. We discuss self-identifying as a programmer, HyperCard qualifying as math, and hardcoded Danish comments.





Links for this episode:

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<li>Erin McKean
<ul><li><a href="https://wordnik.com/">Wordnik</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.wordnik.com/adoptaword">Adopt-a-Word</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/emckean">@emckean</a></li>
<li><a href="http://erinmckean.com">erinmckean.com</a></li>
<li>Erin's talks: <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/erin_mckean_redefines_the_dictionary">TED</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sQjc3KFuAQ">XOXO</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sNUzqrhQqY">The Linguistics of JavaScript</a></li>
<li><a href="https://usesthis.com/interviews/erin.mckean/">on The Setup</a></li>
<li><a data-preserve-html-node="true" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(programming_language)">Pascal</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT#1987.E2.80.9393:_NeXT_Computer">NeXT computers</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Foresman">Scott Foresman publishing</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2">OS/2</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe">CompuServe</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard">HyperCard</a>
<ul><li><a href="https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&amp;ion=1&amp;espv=2&amp;ie=UTF-8#q=ios%20app%20store%20pantry">iOS pantry apps</a></li></ul></li>
<li>Wordnik's stack: <a href="https://www.mongodb.org/">Mongo</a>, <a href="http://www.scala-lang.org/">Scala</a>, <a href="https://nodejs.org/">Node.js</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mentalfloss.com/article/64753/12-things-know-about-merriam-webster-lexicographer-kory-stamper">Kory Stamper on revising "god"</a></li>
<li><a href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4456">odd OCR errors in the Google Books corpus</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/wikipedia-printed-book/9136/">hard copy Wikipedia</a></li>
<li><a href="http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/myl/languagelog/archives/002911.html">the Cupertino effect</a></li>
<li><a href="http://marked2app.com/">Marked</a> by <a href="http://brettterpstra.com/">Brett Terpstra</a></li>
<li><a href="https://blog.archive.org/author/jasonscott/">Jason Scott at the Internet Archive</a></li>
</ul>

e20 – Adium

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