WONY (Word of NEXT Year)? Diavlog Revisited

[Dennis R. Preston]

Thanks Vladamir - uh, I mean Joel. Yes, I thin we have been through
this 'vlog' business before. I was speculating here on the
possibility that these un-English things are more likely to arise in
a written (first) format.

Of course there is much more at work, as I think we discussed
earlier. "vlog" is a lot more likely than "lvog" (but note that in
the the city name Lvov there are some languages that don't seem to
give a hoot about this hierarchy) since /l/ is more sonorous than /v/.

dInIs

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>Poster:       "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
>Subject:      Re: WONY (Word of NEXT Year)? Diavlog Revisited
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>At 12/23/2007 01:32 PM, you wrote:
>>It's interesting how some of these new blend creations, many
>>web-related, break the phonotactic rules of the language (no
>>vl-onsets in English - please don't write in and tell me about the
>>"English" word Vladivostok and other borrowed stuff).
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>Wasn't the word that prompted the "vl cluster spotting" chain
>"vlog"?  And no, I will refrain from telling you the various
>Dutch/Afrikaans words either.
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>Joel
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