"When you _victim-blame_..."

[Ben Zimmer]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>
> My impression is that this kind of structure has definitely moved away
> from, IMO, a joke and may be headed to "unremarkable, perhaps even to
> "ordinary." Or the novelty may wear off too quickly and it'll die out.
>
> Youneverknow.

Arnold covered this back-formation (along with "shut-shame") here:

http://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/04/15/synthetic-compounds-and-back-formed-verbs-rape/

--bgz

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