decontextified

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

A tweet that was retweeted more than 4,000 times used the term
"decontextified" instead of "decontextualized". Will this tweet act as
a primal vector of lexical popularity? No idea. But you might enjoy
this funny tweet.

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Conor Pope ‏@Conorpope
"Tell me about Twitter, Dad." "Well son, we would piece together the
news of the day by reading strangers' decontextified jokes about it."
4,179 Retweets
1,256 Favorites
5:39 AM - 8 Oct 12
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