February 17, 2007
Idiotdom
Chris Dlugosz (1/29/07) treats us to a cartoon pixel that's way past the cutting edge of lexical innovation:
I GUESS I WAS TRYING TO COMBINE A BIT OF OLDER ENGLISH
WITH HIPHOP PLUS OLD TIMEY 1930S AMERICAN WITH A PINCH OF LEETSPEAK
THE TRICK TO UNDERSTANDING IS VIA THE CONTEXT OF THE YELLOW PIXEL
Note restrictive relative which in the yellow pixel's first comment.
(Hat tip to Dave Borowicz, from my senior seminar on linguistic innovations. "Idiotdom" is Dlugosz's title.)
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Posted by Arnold Zwicky at February 17, 2007 01:29 PM