Date:    Mon, 4 May 1998 10:30:35 -0700
<br>From:    Yongwei Gao <951208[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]FUDAN.EDU.CN>
<br>Subject: Re: Neologisms
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<br>Have anybody there ever seen the following list of words? I don t know
<br>whether they can be regarded as neologisms.
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<br>casp kid           Casp kids (those born between 1960 and 1970) actually
<br>benefited from the mass media's obsession with the boomers.(95/4/25 New
<br>York Times A3)
<br>ceiling out        Theoretically, and by design, no child can correctly
<br>answer every item in a subtest. Before completing a subtest and moving
<br>along to the next, the child must  ceiling out #-a polite way of saying
<br> fail.  (New York 12/18/95 p43)
<br>chai        To the coffees and teas it serves in its cafes, Borders
<br>bookstore add  chai,  a blend of tea, milk, vanilla, honey and spices.
<br>(5/15/97 Wall Street Journal p1)
<br>chubbies     And while sales of traditional Nancy Reagan full-lengthers
<br>are still weak, high-end designers say they are doing a brisk business
<br>in bomber jackets, stoles, and  chubbies,  the short jackets that mimic
<br>cropped down-filled parkas. (7/14/97 New York p20)
<br>cigar-ish  News of the New York nightlife crackdown must be slow to
<br>travel, and that s a good thing. With a few exceptions, clubland of late
<br>has tended toward the intimate, loungey, cigar-ish; let s face it, it s
<br>been getting boring. (97/9/8 New York p128)
<br>crowd-surf     That  crowd-surfing  business looks like fun. I tried to
<br>imagine hippies crowd-surfing at the original Woodstock to someone like,
<br>oh, Ravi Shankar. Then again, you watch people crowd-surfing to
<br>countrified Melissa Etheridge and you think: What s wrong with this
<br>picture? (8/15/94 Sun D1)
<br>culture surfing      I was June 1994, weeks after the about-face at CBS.
<br> Running a network is like culture surfing,  explains Sanitsky.  You ve
<br>got to keep paddling out there and hope you catch a wave. Darren is not
<br>a bad surfboard to have.  (5/96 Esquire p79)
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<br>Thanks.
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<br>Yongwei Gao
<br>Fudan University,
<br>Shanghai, China
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