Rachel Shallit posts here and here about an interesting new morphological fad: "X + ness = X, which I am trying to be funny or cute about". This has something to do with the cutesy snowclone "crunchy X goodness", as in "CSS, XSLT, XUL, HTML, XHTML, MathML, SVG, and lots of other crunchy XML goodness", or "Shoggoth.net is filled to the brim with crunchy Cthulhu goodness" or "Now with more crunchy sarcastic goodness in every bite", or "this week, I have nearly 300 pages of crunchy Economist goodness to read." For some crunchy goodness from nearly 30 years ago, look here.
Posted by Mark Liberman at March 24, 2004 07:33 PM