e19 – All the words with Erin McKean
Aug 01, 2015•1 hr 7 min
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Episode description
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:
- Erin McKean
- Wordnik
- Adopt-a-Word
- @emckean
- erinmckean.com
- Erin's talks: TED, XOXO, The Linguistics of JavaScript
- on The Setup
- Pascal
- NeXT computers
- Scott Foresman publishing
- OS/2
- CompuServe
- HyperCard
- Wordnik's stack: Mongo, Scala, Node.js
- Kory Stamper on revising "god"
- odd OCR errors in the Google Books corpus
- hard copy Wikipedia
- the Cupertino effect
- Marked by Brett Terpstra
- Jason Scott at the Internet Archive
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