Good grammar vs. good taste revisited?

[Laurence Horn]

On Sep 23, 2011, at 9:30 PM, Spanbock/Svoboda-Spanbock wrote:

> I'm liking googla = plural of google? (I'm always the last to hear.)


I've been using "googlum" and "googla" for a while, but I don't know anyone else who does.  So be prepared for puzzled looks.  Since "google" is already taken for both the noun (denoting the search engine, technically with upper case) and the verb, as well as the "nounjective" in compounds, I figure it would help to have a separate noun for result(s) returned by a google search, whence googlum (sg.)/googla (pl.)

LH

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> On Sep 23, 2011, at 4:43 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
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>> A currently airing commercial for Mercedes introducing its new line
>> of cars, the [two-door] 2012 C Coupe, boasts that it has:
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>> More Power
>> More Style
>> More Technology
>> Less Doors
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>> Let's see if it's a print ad too
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>> Not that I can see, but lots of (predictable) complaining googla to
>> the effect that it "should" be "fewer doors".  I assume the "Less
>> doors" was entirely intentional and harks back to Miller Lite's
>> "Less filling"/"More taste" commercials as well as the general
>> tendency for "less" to be the antonym of "more" in most contexts.
>> And that we were supposed to notice.  It's not like a supermarket's
>> "10 items or less" aisle, which is likely unintentional.
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>> LH
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