Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- abbr. sacrifice fly
- abbr. science fiction
- abbr. sinking fund
Wiktionary
- San Francisco
- science fiction or speculative fiction, often used to avoid having to choose between the two.
- square feet
- Sinn Fein, an Irish political party
- Smoker Friendly; an establishment that welcomes smokers and caters to their needs.
- basketball Small forward
- Suomi–Finland, former country code for Finland
Examples
“Thus sf fans once had to satisfy their need for SF books because no one published any.”
“Nowadays I don't really care, but I consistently say and write sf not even SF, but sf -- that's just a convention I have adopted, and I see no reason to change it.”
“At the back of the magazine is a long letter from Harlan Ellison, responding to a previous letter which seems to have suggested I don't have the issue it was printed in that there was something wrong with Ellison for wanting to be known as a "writer who writes some sf" rather than an SF writer.”
“hihhihih , man you're attracting quite a crowd...sf mike boy, i'm a busy working dad , can't make it to the the Mills show, are you gonna be around this weekend? we're thinking about going to SF, might stop and say hi, maybe we could get a bit to eat and catch up?”
“That doesn’t mean that *all* SF should be like that, or that *all pessimistic SF* is without merit, but just that IMHO we need more of ingredient “O” in the greater written SF mix.”
“Out The Door in SF is a killer example of a tap program (disclaimer we are on tap there)”
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“Ignoring the gender disparity in SF is not going to make it go away.”
“If the term SF has acquired negative brand equity, it may be time to rebrand the genre.”
Burn After Reading – ‘Science Fiction, And Why It Needs Secret Decoder Rings’ by Gary Gibson
“For them SF is largely incompatible with that genre because the specifics of B are irreconcilable with the rationalism required in SF's A.”
“The most played out troupe in SF is manned space travel.”
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fbharjo When I see SF I am reminded of two of my favorite places - San Francisco and Santa Fe.
Thanks for the SF (so friendly) compliments, Ruzuzu. Dec 30, 2011
ruzuzu Yes--fbharjo's comments are always super fantastic, sagaciously fabulous, and stupendously fascinating. :-)
(That article about Roman Jakobson mentions Charles Sanders Peirce--thanks for that, hh.) Dec 30, 2011
hernesheir Untwisting fbharjo's cryptographic puns is like solving Sudoku puzzles.
I love them! In the present instance we see fs-SF chiasmus; flea/flee homophones each contrasting with the fly implied in the definition of SF; and baseball vs. football in sacrifice fly vs. flea-flicker.
When I analyze fjharbo's puns I feel like Roman Jakobson, who might term these and others a bright paronomasia.
Dec 28, 2011
fbharjo When a flea-flicker won't suffice! InSufficent Flea-flickering. Who is fleeing?
*oh*
*Wrong sport* Dec 28, 2011
frogapplause Ho-hum. It's only baseball terminology. I'd hoped it had something to do with a virgin housefly plunging itself into a bowl of soup. Dec 27, 2011
frogapplause abbr. sacrifice fly
What is a sacrifice fly? Dec 27, 2011