Extendible porn

[Benjamin Barrett]

>From the OED: 1. Capable of being extended or stretched out; capable of being enlarged in length, area, or duration, or in range or scope of meaning or operation; = EXTENSIBLE.

Your version gets 20 times the raw version on Google, though, so I'll be more careful the next time I use this word (which is fairly frequently as I often work on manufacturing documents).

BB

On Mar 15, 2010, at 12:07 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:

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> Exten_s_ible porn or extend_a_ble porn
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> -Wilson
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> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 5:38 AM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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>> The AHD4 and OED have definitions and examples of X porn where the subject matter is X. (Actually, the AHD4 has porn only as an abbreviation for pornography, which seems doubtful for at least some cases.)
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>> The movie "Inglourious Basterds" is being called X porn in the sense that the person watching is the X.
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>> http://blogs.commercialappeal.com/the_bloodshot_eye/2009/08/basterds-of-hun-quentin-tarantinos-inglorious-basterds.html
>> Basterds of Hun: Quentin Tarantino's 'Inglourious Basterds'
>> By John Beifuss on August 24, 2009
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>> Dubbed "kosher porn" (admiringly) by co-star Eli Roth and "Jewish revenge porn" (disdainfully) by the Jewish Daily Forward, "Inglourious Basterds" has -- like seemingly every post-war Nazi movie -- earned the ire of those who object to what's typically described as the vulgarization of the Holocaust for entertainment purposes, whether the vulgarization occurs in a movie is meant to be sentimental ("Life Is Beautiful"), ironic ("The Reader"), ennobling ("Schindler's List") or a gleeful, cartoonish, stimulating, retro wish fulfillment  (Tarantino's film).
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>> This article is followed up by a comment saying: Zwick could have pulled a 'Jew porn' regarding the 'Defiance,' movie but chose morality.
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>> I heard this ("Jew porn") in the wild today and it seems like a reasonable extension of the word that may likely stick. The real test will be to see if an expression like "gay porn" would work where the subject matter is not pornographic, LOL.
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>> Benjamin Barrett
>> Seattle, WA
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