cybertage

[Geoff Nathan]

And, since I'm getting ready for a trip to Germany and Austria thought it was a Germanic holiday.

Geoff

Geoffrey S. Nathan
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and Associate Professor, Linguistics Program
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----- "Herb Stahlke" <hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

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> When I read your subject line, my first thought was that "cybertage"
> was like "bricolage," an assemblage, perhaps artistic, of things
> cyber.  I didn't pick up on the /t/ that would have given me the
> blend
> but went instead with the newer -age suffix that hasn't joined the
> older one in its /- at dZ/ pronunciation as in "baggage," "sewage," etc.
>
> Herb
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> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Jonathan Lighter
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> > Cyber-sabotage.  Not in OED. GB has it from 1995, UrbanDictionary
> from 2003.
> >
> > I invented it independently about twelve minutes ago.
> >
> > _Cybertage_ may take a while to become WOTY because it looks too
> much like
> > "cybertag."
> >
> > JL
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