[Ads-l] Adverb of the day (invented by NYT)

[Dennis During]

Not deep at all. On the Internet nobody can be sure you are or aren't
joking. I try to play it straight, especially as a newbie.

I blame my simple mistake on having taken Greek in high school and
expecting a Greek derivation.

Do you guys just make fun of bad spelling? Or do you treat word errors as
evidence of how little the population cares about words? Or are such
"errors" early warnings of the language being under pressure to change in a
certain way?




On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 3:07 AM, Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> Dennis, I can't tell how deep you're joking. I was tweaking Laurence a bit
> because there's no "ch" in either "sycophant" or "syncopate".
>
> Oh heck, look at the time.
> "What's to do about it?
> Let's turn out the lights and go to sleep."
>
> Psychophantastically,
> Mark
>
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2018, 12:02 AM Dennis During <dcduring at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The NYT must have meant "sychophantishly".  I understand that they can't
> > afford copy editors anymore.
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 11:58 PM, Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > > Poster:       Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at GMAIL.COM>
> > > Subject:      Re: Adverb of the day (invented by NYT)
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> > > And "synchopated" is itself a graphical portmanteau of "syn*ch*ronized"
> > and
> > > "syn*c*opated" (graphical because the blend is inaudible). Right,
> > Laurence?
> > >
> > > Mark
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 7:30 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > If you read the antepenultimate paragraph of the lead editorial on
> the
> > > wa=
> > > r
> > > > in Yemen online
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/opinion/mohammed-bin-
> > > salman-america-ye=
> > > men.html
> > > >
> > > > you=E2=80=99ll find the last paragraph reading this way (quickly,
> > before
> > > =
> > > they
> > > > correct it):
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Three senators, Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent; Chris Murphy,
> a
> > > > Connecticut Democrat; and Mike Lee, a Utah Republican, introduced the
> > > > resolution to end America=E2=80=99s involvement in Yemen and curtail
> > > what=
> > >  they view
> > > > as unchecked presidential war-making powers. The administration and
> > some
> > > > lawmakers worked feverishly against the measure in part because its
> > > 30-da=
> > > y
> > > > deadline would force them to end a military operation they want to
> > > > continue, and they fear it will ruin relations with Saudi Arabia,
> whose
> > > > crown prince Mr. Trump is synchophantishly courting.
> > > >
> > > > Yes, =E2=80=9Csynchophantishly=E2=80=9D, evidently a chimerical
> blend
> > > of =
> > > the (I assume)
> > > > intended =E2=80=9Csycophantically=E2=80=9D with
> > > =E2=80=9Csynchopatedly=E2=
> > > =80=9D or something (it=E2=80=99s tough to
> > > > work out the synchopation with the Saudis), and God knows where the
> > -ish-
> > > > came from, but it does sound negative.  =E2=80=9CSlavishly=E2=80=9D
> > > maybe=
> > > ?
> > > >
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