[Ads-l] "repenetant"

[Laurence Horn]

Maybe he was thinking of "tantics and semantics":  http://www.lutzagency.com/bennett.htm
"SOFT LANDINGS FOR WEIGHTY MATTERS"--seems to fit, sort of.

LH

> On Aug 21, 2016, at 1:49 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Ryan Lochte came up with his own blend: "tantics" ("tantrum" + "antics"):
> 
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> (Doubtful he was thinking about tantric practices.)
> 
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 8:44 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
> 
>>> On Aug 18, 2016, at 7:19 PM, Joel Berson <berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
>>> 
>>> In an interview on CNN today around 4:25 PM, Liegh Steinberg, a "sports
>> agent and attorney", said it was crucial that Ryan Lochte be "repenetant"
>> about his early-morning encounter with a gas station in Rio.
>>> 
>>> Joel
>>> 
>> 99 actual ghits for this (and I didn't check alternate trisyllabic
>> spellings).  It's not enough to be penitent anymore, you need to be
>> repenetant.  Inflation strikes again.  Maybe it's safer to be prepenitent
>> to get it out of the way.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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