"springboard" the verb

[Dan Goncharoff]

I don't understand a word of what you mean.

I only see springboard used to mean 'to accelerate rapidly'. I don't
see any context that gives a meaning of ripping off or stealing.

What am I missing??
DanG



On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> 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.
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> LH
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> On Feb 2, 2012, at 12:22 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
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>> Sorry, where does "stealing" come into use?
>> DanG
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>> 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:
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>>> Not in the OED as a verb.
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>>> 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):
>>>>
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>>>> 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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>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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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