[Ads-l] boi

[Jonathan Lighter]

> corpus fu

Thank God, Joe Bob lives!

JL

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 6:31 AM Geoffrey Nathan <geoffnathan at wayne.edu>
wrote:

> I’ve done a little digging, but my ‘corpus fu’ search skills are primitive.
> My memory is seeing it first with reference to Apple products,
> and COCA has references from 2012. Not sure when it moved out
> of the computing realm to the wider one, and I’d be surprised
> if it’s used solely as a self-reference. However, weirder things have
> happened,
> such as the change in the semantics the OK symbol from images of a French
> chef:
>
> https://bit.ly/30t4DJX
>
> to an Alt-Right covert signal.
>
> Geoff
>
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> *Boi* has been frequent in the expression *fanboi* since at least the early
> 2000s, and seems to be an Engrish coinage via the otaku route.  The female
> equivalent seems to be *gyaru* ('girl'), but doesn't have much currency,
> probably owing to its comparative awkwardness.  It's weird to see *boi* get
> picked up by a probably racist group of "militia" types.
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> On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 5:23 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >  2020
> > https://news.yahoo.com/protesters-across-us-attacked-cars-100046738.html
> > *:*
> >
> > So-called =E2=80=9Cboogaloo bois=E2=80=9D are members of a loose-knit,
> pr=
> o-gun,
> > anti-government movement, which is preoccupied with what they believe to
> =
> be
> > a looming second American civil war.
> >
> > JL
> >
> >
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