Dory (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} dorywithserifs) wrote,@ 2006-12-24 17:46:00 |
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what you can do with words
It's raining and it's the day before Christmas. So I'm sitting on my bed, reading this blogpost from Yarn Harlot, it's a guide to non-knitters about what to get the knitters in their life for that big gift-giving holliday. She writes:
Yarn. Buy yarn. I hear muggles say it all the time "But she has so much yarn. I'll get her something else."
Muggles! It now generally means "outsider." Awesome.
Similarly, please see Pontiac Quarterly, a Magazine in Toronto that is actually a monthly event (of words and music and art and other things that would be in a magazine if they actually were in print).
And then, Kat and Graeme both independently told me the story of sitting around in person, trading URLS, prompting G to say "We're IM-ing!"
What are we dealing with here? Folk etymology? Backformation? Just plain old meaning-extension? Any other examples, people?
