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"text": "Igry (1/2/3) – a (research-driven?) neologism expressing a voyeuristic, laissez-faire sense of shame – already gets slightly more ghits (ca 200 to 175, once you've sifted out the Russians) than its Catalan equivalent, vergonya aliena, although it's still way behind plaatsvervangende schaamte and vergüenza ajena (not to mention verguenza ajena).",
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"text": "For me, though, the most important thing in his post is the neologism ghits. Now there's a word that fills a need! I don't know if this is Trevor's coinage, but it seems to be pretty new: \"ghits\" has 2380 ghits, at the moment, but all the 50 or so that I checked were programming language variable names, words in languages other than English, alternative spellings of \"gits\", or jokes like \"ghits and siggles\". Anyhow, I'm in Trevor's debt for the tip, and if he's the author, he deserves immortal renown. […] Update: it seems that Trevor is the responsible party. He's posted that / I am having 1,500 cards printed with \"ghit = google hit © 2004 followthebaldie.com\" and am going to flog them down the Ramblas this lunchtime. I am unsure as to whether this constitutes a business plan.",
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"ref": "2004 August 8, Mark Liberman, “Superfluity and Uselessness”, in Language Log, archived from the original on 2016-10-01",
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"ref": "2004 October 22, “David”, “Searching Sue de Nimes”, in TEFL Smiler: A British EFL Teacher Comments on His Life and Applied Linguistics, archived from the original on 2006-03-02",
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