[ExI] new word usage

[William Flynn Wallace]

Who knows?  Have a hulky day.  bill w

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 3:23 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 7:57 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> > What am I doing this weekend?  Hulking around.  (no, not 'rise
> massively!) bill w
> >
> > Related entries & more
> > hulk (v.)
> > "to be clumsy, unwieldy, or lazy," 1789, from hulk (n.) or a
> back-formation from
> > hulking. Meaning "rise massively" is from 1880. Related: Hulked; hulking.
>
> A problem would be getting that to catch on. In college, a friend of
> mine tried to get words to catch -- either new usages or recovering
> archaic ones -- but none of that seemed to work for him. To be sure, I
> thought it would be difficult for someone who didn't have a large
> following and wasn't in the limelight to become the vanguard of
> language change.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
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