[Ads-l] extremist-adjacent

[Laurence Horn]

We discussed -adjacent at one of our WOTY gatherings (can’t recall which year), but I don’t remember how much headway it made. Maybe Ben will recall.

> On Jan 31, 2021, at 11:57 AM, ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>> Deadline White House, MSNBC:
>> 
>> "How sort of extremist-adjacent some of [the members of Congress] were."
>> 
>> Another one of those lexicosyntactical shortcuts. Cf. "food-insecure,"
>> "shovel-ready," etc.
> 
> I have seen this construct: 'group'-adjacent for a few years. Here are
> two examples from twitter in 2016: "alt-right adjacent" and "SJW
> adjacent".
> 
> https://twitter.com/GetToKnowDonald/status/769318254300962816
> Timestamp: 7:38 PM · Aug 26, 2016
> Twitter handle: WhatHasDonaldDoneNow @GetToKnowDonald
> [Begin excerpt]
> www.gettoknowdonaldtrump.trumperism. Lunatics take over the asylum.
> Lifelong GOP wz always alt-right adjacent #CTL
> [End excerpt]
> 
> https://twitter.com/HatredIsMyMuse/status/785018988178714624
> Timestamp: 3:28 AM · Oct 9, 2016
> Twitter handle: Action Economist @HatredIsMyMuse
> [Begin excerpt]
> some of the people doing this are SJW adjacent
> [End excerpt]
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