"springboard" the verb

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/2/2012 01:04 PM, Laurence Horn 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.

My nuances do not distinguish between "ripping
off" and "stealing".  I'm waiting for the court decision.  :-)

Joel

>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 Feb 2, 2012, at 12:22 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>
> > Sorry, where does "stealing" come into use?
> > DanG
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> >> A couple of things I notice:
> >>
> >> Not in the OED as a verb.
> >>
> >> At 2/2/2012 11:30 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> >>> used by Sean Salisbury, former NFL quarterback
> >>> and now commentator, on his practicing some
> >>> training regime:  "It's only in the last
> few months that I've sprungboard
"
> >>>
> >>> A bit reminiscent of "sleptwalked", only here
> >>> it's only the first element that's inflected; it
> >>> was clear he didn't say "sprungboarded".  (Maybe
> >>> it's partly that "board" sounds like a past or participial form already?)
> >>>
> >>> Googling "sprungboard", I do find a couple of
> >>> analogous uses on the first page, albeit with
> >>> simple past tense forms rather than participials (not that it matters):
> >>>
> >>> ============
> >>> 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
> >>
> >>
> >>> Now a couple of my friends that have done it
> >>> have lost a ton of weight, but didn't build any
> >>> muscle - so they sprungboard off the p90x to crossfit.
> >>> ============
> >>> In fact (I wasn't listening closely), Salisbury
> >>> himself may have been referring to P90X himself,
> >>> but in any case it was a regime of that type.
> >>>
> >>> LH
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