[Ads-l] P.S. on "Fargone" vs. "Fargoed"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

There has been an attempt to create a verb based on the movie "Inception".

You just got Inceptioned
http://cheezburger.com/5221770752


Urban Dictionary: Inceptioned
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Inceptioned

[Begin excerpt]
Inceptioned
The period between 1-2 days of seeing the movie, still trying to
wonder what the f*ck just happened.
Man and Woman walk out of Theater:
-man: so was it all a dream?
woman: i think it was reality.-

And thus, you are Inceptioned
[End excerpt]

Garson


On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 3:25 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> See my Jan. 2013 columns for the Boston Globe and Vocabulary.com, comparing
> "catfishing" to "gaslighting."
>
> http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/01/27/catfish-how-manti-imaginary-romance-got-its-name/inqu9zV8RQ7j19BRGQkH7H/story.html
> https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/wordroutes/when-life-imitates-the-movies-from-gaslighting-to-catfishing/
>
> In the latter, I quote Larry Horn asking on ADS-L about other verbs from
> movie titles:
>
> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2013-January/124742.html
>
> I give "Shawshank(ed)" and "Stepford(ed)" as other possible cinematic
> verbs, and in the comments Orin Hargraves mentions "Forrest Gump(ed)." None
> of these are as common as "gaslight" and "catfish," of course.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 9:17 AM, Yagoda, Ben <byagoda at udel.edu> wrote:
>
>> And speaking of which, what are other examples, if any, of movie titles
>> that have become fairly widespread verbs? A 2014 Mental Floss article, “11
>> Movie Titles That Became Part of the Lexicon” has only two--“Gaslight” and
>> the 2010 “Catfish,” which an Urban Dictionary poster defines as: "To give
>> the impression of being an attractive person in order to attract someone
>> online while being a complete or near opposite of that portrayed.”
>>
>> Off the top of my head, “All About Eve” and  “The Manchurian Candidate”
>> (which has been referred to a fair amount lately) might have had shots if
>> they were one word instead of three.
>>
>> http://mentalfloss.com/article/57860/11-movie-titles-became-part-lexicon
>>
>> Ben
>>
>>
>
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