"springboard" the verb

[victor steinbok]

I don't think it's "rip off"--more like "take off", in the sense of "build
on". Which is what, I suspect, prompted Dan's question.

VS-)

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

>
> Maybe "ripping off" would be more accurate than "stealing", if you have
> the same nuances (and register restrictions) that I do between the two.
> Not all springboarding (or even prototypical springboarding) involves
> ripping-off, of course, since there can be different scenarios for
> picking/taking up where someone else left off.
>
> LH
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
>
> At 2/2/2012 11:30 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> ...
> >> ============
> >> Well, I only took stuff from your videos, so
> >> since it's "my idea" that I sprungboard off your stuff,...
> >
> > An extended use -- "springboarding" is "taking
> > off from", perhaps sometimes with the added connotation of "stealing"?
> >
> > Joel
>

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