A new word "oxt"

[Dan Goncharoff]

That will never get past the spellchecker...

DanG


On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

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> On Jul 17, 2014, at 2:20 PM, caitlin o wrote:
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> > DanG said: "Funny, I always thought "this Thursday" v "next Thursday" =
> accomplished the same thing."
> > It doesn't in my experience because one can say "next Friday" to refer =
> to the closest coming Friday or to the oxt Friday.  I know people who =
> frequently inter-change "this" and "next" in this context because =
> they're never sure which their audience prefers.  It's annoyed me for a =
> very long time. I have taken to specifying the date, or always using the =
> phrase "not this coming Friday, but the Friday after that".=20
> > Personally, I am very excited about oxt.
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> Easy to remember, too, and very intuitive.  My ale soup--not the =
> immediately upcoming ale soup, but the one right after that--is my oxt =
> ale soup.=20
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> >> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 14:13:55 -0400
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> >> Funny, I always thought "this Thursday" v "next Thursday" =
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> >> DanG
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> >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> =
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> >>> http://bit.ly/1jUiRtA
> >>> The real beauty of oxt is that it can refer to
> >>> "not-this-coming-one-but-the=3D
> >>> -one-after" for all sorts of categories of things.I'm going to make =
> my own
> >>> =3D
> >>> hot sauce oxt Thursday (that is=3D2C July 24). Take the oxt left to =
> get to
> >>> my=3D
> >>> house. Qatar is hosting the oxt World Cup. I think we should spend =
> oxt
> >>> Fla=3D
> >>> g Day in Montana!We could even use the compound "oxtday" to refer to =
> the
> >>> da=3D
> >>> y after tomorrow. Several other languages=3D2C after all=3D2C have a
> >>> particular=3D
> >>> word that refers to this commonly-used concept=3D2C but we don't so =
> far.
> >>> Tom Zurinskas=3D2C Conn 20 yrs=3D2C Tenn 3=3D2C NJ 33=3D2C now FL =
> 12.See how
> >>> Englis=3D
> >>> h spelling links to sounds at http://justpaste.it/ayk
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