Timeline for How did Ursula K. Le Guin come up with the word "ansible"?
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| Mar 12, 2021 at 0:32 | comment | added | A. B. | I'd always assumed that the word had something to do with "ANSI" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…), which I've often seen in connection with computer encodings (especially on old computers), but on looking it up I see that the organisation wasn't called that until 1969 and "Rocannon's World" came out in 1966. | |
| S Dec 19, 2020 at 21:10 | history | suggested | user89356 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
LeGuin -> Le Guin; disambiguate "Card".
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| Dec 19, 2020 at 20:58 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Jan 19, 2018 at 2:55 | history | edited | Thunderforge | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Making the title more explicit
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| Jan 19, 2018 at 0:37 | history | edited | recognizer |
Adding the "etymology" tag, because that's what it's about!
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| May 10, 2014 at 4:11 | comment | added | Ryan Reich | Note that Card doesn't claim to have invented the word, since right there when it's first mentioned in Ender's Game, he says "Someone got the name from an old book". It's an oblique but definite nod. | |
| Sep 22, 2013 at 3:17 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/381618112015396864 | ||
| Sep 17, 2013 at 9:26 | answer | added | James Sheridan | timeline score: 19 | |
| Sep 17, 2013 at 6:56 | comment | added | Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE | Wikipedia states that she chose the word because it sounded like "answerable". | |
| Sep 17, 2013 at 6:25 | comment | added | Darius | I believe she never confirmed it and even and according to Dave Goldman's y.2001 post she claimed it she got it from answerable... I can also make out a basil out of it :D | |
| Sep 17, 2013 at 4:11 | review | First posts | |||
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| Sep 17, 2013 at 3:53 | history | asked | yrodro | CC BY-SA 3.0 |