[Ads-l] teract

[Neal Whitman]

Blend of what?
 

    On Wednesday, November 8, 2017 7:50 AM, Amy West <medievalist at W-STS.COM> wrote:
 

 "Poligarch" jogged my memory about this:

My student (native Russian speaker) used a word new to me twice in a 
recent post for a class:

When I hear or say the word “hero”, one man comes to my mind, the man 
from a documentary movie about the teract 9.11.


And

That man was usual man, employee of a company located inside one of the 
teracted buildings.


She said she had seen the term used before online/on the web: I've never 
seen it before and a Google Books search doesn't turn up any instances 
(only skimmed the results). I even did a quickie search of American 
Speech online and ADS-L. :-)  Looks like a classic blend; I don't know 
if she's borrowed it from Russian sources/use or if it's calqued on 
Russian. My ability to read Cyrilic only extends to part of the alphabet 
so far.

---Amy West




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