empretzeled

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Strikes me as a very clever piece of metaphor wordsmithing. Not quite James Joyce or Years, but it works.
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From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>

Date:         Thu, 21 May 2009 16:33:19
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Subject:      Re: [ADS-L] empretzeled


WTF does it mean: "empretzeled"? I'm not familiar with the relevant
dialect of English.

-Wilson
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On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 5:30 PM, David A. Daniel <dad at pokerwiz.com> wrote:
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> From that same review: "...but "Terminator Salvation" seems more like a
> throwback than a harbinger of things to come." OMFG, to quote Gossip Girl.
> How can one then take "empretzeled" seriously? We are simply presented with
> an ignoramus who has access to a key board and, apparently, gets paid to
> beat upon it. Is his usage worthy of note for those who track the progress
> of the Mother Tongue? Sadly, perhaps it is.
> DAD
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> Benjamin Zimmer
> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 4:49 PM
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> Subject: empretzeled
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>
>
> From A.O. Scott's review of "Terminator Salvation" in the New York Times:
>
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> http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/movies/21term.html
> A detailed recap of the franchise's empretzeled chronology will not be
> possible here.
> ---
>
> The word has been used a couple of times by Time Magazine columnist
> Joe Klein. He used it in a 2004 column and again last year on the
> Swampland blog (though he spelled it "empretzled" that time):
>
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> http://www.time.com/time/election2004/columnist/klein/article/0,18471,692822
> ,00.html
> "Tearing Kerry Down" (Sep. 4, 2004)
> The attacks on Kerry ranged from the reasonable-he certainly has
> empretzeled himself on Iraq-to the outrageous: Zell Miller's assertion
> that Kerry would take his orders from Paris.
> ---
> http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2008/10/06/embarracuda/
> "Embarracuda" (Oct. 6, 2008)
> I mean, don't the hateful doings at Palin's church and Hannity's
> perfidy deserve a lengthy exegesis from Pete Wehner or Jennifer Rubin
> or one of the other empretzled ideologues over at Commentary?
> ---
>
> Norman Mailer also once used the word, in his preface to_First
> Flowering: The Best of the Harvard Advocate_ (1977) -- republished in
>_The Harvard Book_ (William Bentinck-Smith, ed. 1982) and the Mailer
> anthology_The Time of Our Time_ (1999):
>
> ---
> It was only on the next day, after the claims of liars had been
> checked against the quiet evidence of reliable witnesses who had found
> themselves analogously empretzeled in every room and on the stairs,
> that the news came back.
> ---
>
> --Ben Zimmer
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