positionality = "social status or position"

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:49 PM -0400 8/28/07, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>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):

Exactly.  And those (unlike "www") are actually *called*
triple-doubles and hence constitute much more compelling candidates
for the reduction to "trip-dub".  Tridub or bust!

LH

>
>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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