[Ads-l] origamo

[Barretts Mail]

lmao

> On 10 Mar 2018, at 09:21, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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> And presumably those who are exceptionally partial to oregano insist on oregani, as suggested at
> https://www.veenas.com/natco-dried-oregani-25g.html
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> I’d implicate “oregano” as complicit in the reanalysis of “origami” to “origamo”, but the stress pattern makes this dubious.
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> LH
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>> On Mar 10, 2018, at 12:02 PM, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>> Fascinating find. 
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>> That would mean people have reanalyzed “origami” as a count noun, so I went through about 50 Google hits for “many origami” and found nothing to support that (“many origami projects”, etc.) A more detailed search would probably yield something.
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>> I looked briefly at the hits for origamo:
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>> An apparel company which seems to account for the lion’s share of origamo hits - https://origamoapparel.com/ <https://origamoapparel.com/> 
>> A DOS game - https://www.myabandonware.com/game/origamo-2vx <https://www.myabandonware.com/game/origamo-2vx>
>> Italian back formation from origami - https://www.divertilandia.it/biglietto-pop-up-origamo-pavone <https://www.divertilandia.it/biglietto-pop-up-origamo-pavone> 
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>> And what appears to be an English usage of origamo for origami:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYZwe9lzbHg <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYZwe9lzbHg>
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>> Benjamin Barrett
>> Formerly of Seattle, WA
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>>> On 10 Mar 2018, at 07:49, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>>> Jane Seymour on CNN speaks of "a sort of origamo thing," i.e. a single ex.
>>> of origami.
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>>> Thousands of unsifted Google hits on "origamo."
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