cybertage

Dan Goncharoff thegonch at GMAIL.COM
Fri May 7 20:02:18 UTC 2010


Siberian Days auf Deutsch??

DanG

On 5/7/2010 11:36 AM, Geoff Nathan wrote:
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> And, since I'm getting ready for a trip to Germany and Austria thought it was a Germanic holiday.
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> ----- "Herb Stahlke"<hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM>  wrote:
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>> 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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>> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Jonathan Lighter
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>>> Cyber-sabotage.  Not in OED. GB has it from 1995, UrbanDictionary
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>> 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
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>> much like
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>>> "cybertag."
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>>> JL
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