cybertage

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:16 AM -0400 5/7/10, Herb Stahlke wrote:
>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

Perhaps "cybotage" would be clearer.

LH

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>On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Jonathan Lighter
><wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>  Cyber-sabotage.  Not in OED. GB has it from 1995, UrbanDictionary from 2003.
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>>  I invented it independently about twelve minutes ago.
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>>  _Cybertage_ may take a while to become WOTY because it looks too much like
>>  "cybertag."
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>>  JL
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