"Brokeback" named Hollywood word of the year

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Mar 9, 2006, at 12:05 PM, Larry Horn wrote:

> There was an article in a recent N. Y. Times about "Brokeback
> marriages", which doesn't involve the descriptive adjective
> "brokeback" per se, but is a direct reference to the kind of marriage
> depicted in the movie:...

now discussed briefly in:
   Mark Liberman, 3/7/06: Brokeback generalizations:
  http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002904.html

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