[Ads-l] origamo

[Jonathan Lighter]

And let's not forget the Origamo Trail.

JL

On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 12:25 PM, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> lmao
>
> > On 10 Mar 2018, at 09:21, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
> >
> > And presumably those who are exceptionally partial to oregano insist on
> oregani, as suggested at
> > https://www.veenas.com/natco-dried-oregani-25g.html
> >
> > I’d implicate “oregano” as complicit in the reanalysis of “origami” to
> “origamo”, but the stress pattern makes this dubious.
> >
> > LH
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Mar 10, 2018, at 12:02 PM, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Fascinating find.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> I looked briefly at the hits for origamo:
> >>
> >> 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>
> >>
> >> 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>
> >>
> >> Benjamin Barrett
> >> Formerly of Seattle, WA
> >>
> >>> On 10 Mar 2018, at 07:49, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Jane Seymour on CNN speaks of "a sort of origamo thing," i.e. a single
> ex.
> >>> of origami.
> >>>
> >>> Thousands of unsifted Google hits on "origamo."
> >>
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