[Ads-l] "kitty-bar"

[Laurence Horn]

> On Feb 22, 2016, at 8:11 PM, Benjamin Barrett <mail.barretts at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 
> Benjamin Barrett
> Formerly of Seattle, WA

Yes, we've already had casualties in our family.  My daughter is addicted, and my sister-in-law isn't far behind.  I fondly remember the semi-eponymous (well, it was Neko, not Neko Atsume) screen saver on my (very) old Mac, back when we were all into screen savers.  Neko was right up there with Flying Toasters and the Aquarium.  Sounds like the cat collecting is a bit more labor-intensive than watching kitties bounce off the edge of one's screen, though.  

LH

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>> On 22 Feb 2016, at 16:55, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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>> Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>> Subject:      Re: "kitty-bar"
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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
>> 
>>> 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."
>>> =20
>>> On Twitter, Linda Holmes speculates that this is based on an eggcornic
>>> mishearing of "Katie, bar the door."
>>> =20
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>>> =20
>>> 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.
>>> =20
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