cybertage

[Jonathan Lighter]

Within minutes of Larry's suggestion, I found 2,180 RGs for "cybotage."
(Not in OED either.)

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JL

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> At 11:16 AM -0400 5/7/10, Herb Stahlke wrote:
> >When I read your subject line, my first thought was that "cybertage"
> >was like "bricolage," an assemblage, perhaps artistic, of things
> >cyber.  I didn't pick up on the /t/ that would have given me the blend
> >but went instead with the newer -age suffix that hasn't joined the
> >older one in its /- at dZ/ pronunciation as in "baggage," "sewage," etc.
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> >Herb
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> Perhaps "cybotage" would be clearer.
>
> LH
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> >On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Jonathan Lighter
> ><wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>  Cyber-sabotage.  Not in OED. GB has it from 1995, UrbanDictionary from
> 2003.
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> >>  I invented it independently about twelve minutes ago.
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> >>  _Cybertage_ may take a while to become WOTY because it looks too much
> like
> >>  "cybertag."
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> >>  JL
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