The Innovative Usage Thread

[Avjunza]

One I came up with a few weeks ago on the spot: "doordancing".

[linguoboy]

The girl is supposedly dead—she drowned in a dam, but somehow her body was never found

[TaylorS]

I don't know if this is regional, but a lot people over 50 here say "bye now" to mean "see you later".

[linguoboy]

I don't know if this is regional, but a lot people over 50 here say "bye now" to mean "see you later".

If it's only used by older people, wouldn't that make it the opposite of "innovative"?

(I'm still under 50 and that strikes me as a completely unremarkable thing to say.)

[Rekettye]

I don't know if this is regional, but a lot people over 50 here say "bye now" to mean "see you later".

If it's only used by older people, wouldn't that make it the opposite of "innovative"?

(I'm still under 50 and that strikes me as a completely unremarkable thing to say.)

People say that not uncommonly all over the British Isles, and not only over 50s. Though it's a bit "nice", so you wouldn't hear hard lads saying it.

[finlay]

It sounds Irish to me.

[Nortaneous]

re: noun incorporation, the bus I took yesterday was "bathroom-equipped", vs. "equipado con lavasomethings"

[clawgrip]

Yeah, old people like to put "now" on things.

My grandfather used to say "Safe journey home, now" as we were leaving.

"You take care, now."
"Have you, now?"

These sound either like old people phrases or just completely plain phrases.

[ol bofosh]

I use "have you, now?"

The others are a bit rarer for me to say, but I can and do say them.

Sometimes I say "bye/see you, then."

[Qwynegold]

I don't know if this is regional, but a lot people over 50 here say "bye now" to mean "see you later".

If it's only used by older people, wouldn't that make it the opposite of "innovative"?

(I'm still under 50 and that strikes me as a completely unremarkable thing to say.)

It sounds familiar to me too, though I've never used it myself.

[Bob Johnson]

it's not that old http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA67mDsQvsc

[Travis B.]

I don't know if this is regional, but a lot people over 50 here say "bye now" to mean "see you later".

If it's only used by older people, wouldn't that make it the opposite of "innovative"?

(I'm still under 50 and that strikes me as a completely unremarkable thing to say.)

Same thought here; it is unremarkable to me, and I'm a good bit younger than linguoboy.

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I was watching a Let's Play video, and the commentator had [lɛɱf] ~ [leɱf] for the word "length". Does nasal assimilation occur often in this place with people who have <th> [f]?

[Rekettye]

I was watching a Let's Play video, and the commentator had [lɛɱf] ~ [leɱf] for the word "length". Does nasal assimilation occur often in this place with people who have <th> [f]?

Sounds like (sub)urban SE England to me. So, not an innovation as such - though I've also heard [leŋf].

[finlay]

I've heard a lot of people with [lɛnθ], so this is just one more step away; once it's already assimilated to the t it'll just follow the f like an obedient dog.

Again, the other option is to insert a k to break up the cluster, and that's what I do.

[Travis B.]

Again, the other option is to insert a k to break up the cluster, and that's what I do.

Same here, i.e. /ˈleŋkθ/ > [ˈʟ̞ẽŋkθ]~[ˈɰẽŋkθ].

[Chagen]

Wait, <length> is supposed to have a /E/? I have /I/ in mine.

[linguoboy]

Wait, <length> is supposed to have a /E/? I have /I/ in mine.

Congratulations on being pin-pen merged.

[Chagen]

I don't have the pin-pen merger, though. /I/ and /E/ are distinguished in my dialect.

[Ser]

then you have an incomplete pin-pen merger

[linguoboy]

I don't have the pin-pen merger, though. /I/ and /E/ are distinguished in my dialect.

They are in my dialect, too, but not before nasals.

Or do you mean to say that you distinguish /ɪ/ and /ɛ/ before /ŋ/, just not in the word length? In which case, minimal pair please?

[Chagen]

Actually, I think they're merged but only before a velar nasal. I can distinguish them before /N/ with concious thought, but normally they just both come out as /I/.

[linguoboy]

How do people interpret this sentence?

• For example, bear grease has been substituted for extra virgin olive oil in Nuwati’s line of balms.

What's actually in the balms, olive oil or bear grease?

[Izambri]

How do people interpret this sentence?

• For example, bear grease has been substituted for extra virgin olive oil in Nuwati’s line of balms.

What's actually in the balms, olive oil or bear grease?

Olive oil. It seems a literal translation from Catalan:

• Per exemple, el greix d'ós ha estat substituït per oli d'oliva verge en la línia de bàlsams de Nuwati.

[Bob Johnson]

How do people interpret this sentence?

• For example, bear grease has been substituted for extra virgin olive oil in Nuwati’s line of balms.

What's actually in the balms, olive oil or bear grease?

Bear grease in Nuwati's, olive oil in other lines.

Are people confusing "for" and "with"?