Re: THEORY: lexical shift [was Re: Time machine]

From: "Tristan McLeay" <kesuari@...>
> On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 00:52, Muke Tever wrote:
>
> > 4 - It borrows commercial terms, e.g. xerox(tm), picard(tm) maneuver
> What's a Picard manoeuvre[1]?
1 - using the peculiar properties of FTL travel to make it appear that you are
in two places at once during a battle
(see http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1040100 for details)

2 - giving your uniform shirt a short downwards tug (presumably to straighten
it)

> > Brand *spanking* new words are more likely to come out of 1 and 4,
although
> > science invents a few every now and then ('google' as mentioned, 'quark'
> > lifted out of FW).  Both science and everyday language are probably more
> > likely to create words out of new combinations of old morphemes.
>
> 'Googol', actually. The popular search engine re-spelt it to look more
> English, but 'googol' is still the correct spelling of the word for
> 10^100.
You see, I knew that... doh.  If I didn't *use* Google I wouldnt have made
that mistake (and google has been flaky on me anyway lately.  O cruel
mistress!)


    *Muke!
[1] But not aë, oë.  So still 'aero-' and not 'ero-'.
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