[X] porn

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> On Mar 28, 2009, at 4:50 PM, i wrote on "[X] porn".
>
> now i've posted a very brief note on my blog --
>
>   http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/snowclonelet-composites/
>
> about "snowclonelet composites": X fag, porn, queen, rage, virgin,
> whore.

I wrote about "X rage" and a few other snowclonelets ("inner X", "X
chic", "X-ly challenged") in this OUPblog post:

http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/inner_blog/


--Ben Zimmer

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