[Ads-l] "kitty-bar"

[Benjamin Barrett]

This reminds me that the word “neko” (Japanese for “cat”) has found a new avenue of Anglicization. The game “Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector” is a popular app.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_Atsume <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_Atsume> says it was released in late 2014.

Benjamin Barrett
Formerly of Seattle, WA

> On 22 Feb 2016, at 16:55, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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> That's great.  I haven't encountered a kitty-bar in our neighborhood =
> (they'd probably just have a lot of craft milk on tap)--it's probably =
> just around the kitty-corner.
> 
> I love the @bgzimmer alert in the the Callan comment...
> 
> LH
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>> On Feb 22, 2016, at 5:17 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>> Goldie Taylor, "This Is the Date Bernie Sanders Berns Out"
>> "Some would argue that a window of opportunity slammed shut Sunday
>> night in Nevada and that the upcoming race in South Carolina is the
>> proverbial kitty-bar."
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>> On Twitter, Linda Holmes speculates that this is based on an eggcornic
>> mishearing of "Katie, bar the door."
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>> Makes sense to me, though I can't find much in the way of kitty-bars
>> online, proverbial or otherwise. FWIW, Goldie Taylor was born in
>> University City, MO and raised in East St. Louis, IL, before moving to
>> Atlanta.
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