Ghost poop, husband-in-law, and other "family words"

[Laurence Horn]

>"Cocoining" would be inelegant . . . .
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>--Charlie

and too evocative of a cooperative effort rather than an independent one

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>>Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:30:50 -0400
>>From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>>Subject: Re: Ghost poop, husband-in-law, and other "family words"
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>>*Is there a verb for coining that doesn't presuppose 'for the first
>>time'?  I'd expect others to have independently "coined" the same
>>or a synonymous verb.
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