[Lexicog] When is an "in" word """in"""?

[Fritz Goerling]

Shore, why not? Maybe "manguage" will make it into the dictionary.
But then someone else comes along and uses the word in the sense
of "human language." As a protest sooner or later others will insist on
"humanguage" or "peopleguage." Imagine the ramifications!

Fritz Goerling


Mike Maxwell wrote:

  OTOH, I am a linguist, so I actually have a license to speak manguage.
  (= mangled language, a la Humpty Dumpty)




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