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Jul. 15th, 2007 03:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
froggy_dearThe internet is cool. I wondered why two separate, distinct science fiction authors (Ursula K. Le Guin and Orson Scott Card (in The Left Hand of Darkness and the Ender books, respectively)) used the same term - ansible - for a device that can communicate nearly instantaneously across interstellar distances.
Maybe this word is in the dictionary. Merriam Webster is no use. The Oxford English Dictionary (which I still have access to, whoopee!) also has no entry for ansible, despite having an entry for "ginormous" which predates its addition to Merriam Webster.
But Google, with the aid of Wikipedia, reveals all.
And that is my internet/geek word of the day. Ansible.
Maybe this word is in the dictionary. Merriam Webster is no use. The Oxford English Dictionary (which I still have access to, whoopee!) also has no entry for ansible, despite having an entry for "ginormous" which predates its addition to Merriam Webster.
But Google, with the aid of Wikipedia, reveals all.
And that is my internet/geek word of the day. Ansible.