positionality = "social status or position"

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 8/28/07, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> At 6:59 PM -0400 8/28/07, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
> >>
> >>  Yes, in a way it's surprising that hasn't turned into "Tridub" or
> >>  something similarly reduced by now.
> >
> >Well, there's "tripdub", apparently.
> >
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_of_%22www%22
>
> I prefer "tridub".  "Tripdub" sounds too much like "tripped up", and
> I don't like the other options on that web site.  wuh wuh wuh?  dub
> dub dub?  no no no.  double-you cubed?  no thanks.

I would've guessed "tripdub" was some hipster hybrid of triphop and dub music.

Another possible expansion of "tripdub" is "triple double" (when a
player reaches at least 10 points, 10 rebounds, and 10 assists in a
basketball game):

http://forums.sohh.com/showthread.php?t=524201
http://www.sports-boards.net/forums/showthread.php?t=17359
http://freedarko.blogspot.com/2005/11/certain-things-you-ought-to-know.html
etc.


--Ben Zimmer

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