-ify and -ification

[Wilson Gray]

This post is *not* about _reify_ and _reification_! WTF?!!!

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On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
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> On Aug 28, 2011, at 5:34 PM, Larry Horn wrote:
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>> I always thought one of the more creative examples of what you and Geoff =
>> call "playful" word formation was "Californication", which=97before it =
>> became a Red Hot Chili Peppers song or a series on Showtime=97was a word =
>> of warning used by folks in Oregon (and elsewhere?) urging wariness if =
>> not strong resistance toward unbridled growth lest their pristine =
>> coastline turn into (shudder) L.A. Mark II.
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>> Checking on wiki, I find that the warning was far more widespread, and =
>> the coinage far older (I remember it from the early 1980s) than I knew:...
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> fascinating. Â i did mention "Californication" (the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the tv show) in
> Â http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2010/06/13/creepitude/
> but i didn't trace it back any further than these two vectors.
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> arnold
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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