nom, nomming, nom nom

[Neal Whitman]

One of the linguists I follow on Twitter (I forget now which one) wrote
about tabulating nominalizations in some text. She was amused because she
got to write "NOM NOM NOM" all over the paper.

Neal

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> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Ben Zimmer
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>> (Everyone here subscribes to AmSp right? :-)
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> "Nom" came up when I posted a photo to flickr of people at a National
> Organization for Marriage rally. Both I and a young employee of mine
> thought the acronym "NOM" was giggle-worthy, given the lolcat
> referent. (NOM is an anti-same-sex marriage organization. They use the
> phrase "traditional marriage" to denote mixed-sex monogamous marriage,
> which I find disingenuous.)
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