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The Soap Opera Hypothesis

Subject: The Soap Opera Hypothesis
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.

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Ron Hardin
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On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

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