"Twinterview"

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:09 PM -0400 7/20/09, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Laurence Horn<laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>>
>>  Least likely to succeed, or already succeeded?  That's often a
>>  problem with this WOTY category, but the word in question,
>>  "twinterview", evidently means 'interview conducted via Twitter', and
>>  there are 57,900 raw g-hits for it.  It seems to me as though it
>>  *ought to* mean 'interview of (or by?) twins'.
>
>I believe "twitterview" is a bit more common (which solves the
>"twin" problem).
>
>
--while, however, not evoking "interview" in a particularly salient
way.  Sounds more like a video-enabled tweet.

LH

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