| Subject: | The Soap Opera Hypothesis |
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| From: | Ron Hardin |
| Date: | Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:49:04 GMT |
| Newsgroups: | sci.lang |
There are compound nouns, like whistleblower and gatekeeper and wrongdoing, that you hear only on the news. I think this is because they play roles in soap opera. And the news is aimed at soap opera junkies. You could probably mark the year it started from these words. -- Ron Hardin rhhardin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. |
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