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I'd toss social conformity into the pot.

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The boiling pot? ;\) That was pretty good! [bow]

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Neologisms come and neologisms go. Some of them catch on and some of them fade away and all the weeping and wailing have no effect one way or the other. My advice to the peevologists is to wait them out or get used to them.

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I think my pre-edit post went something like, “I'd toss conformity into the roiling viralization pot.” Then I got to thinking about the fact that viralization, as the spell checker hinted, is not found in some dictionaries. Moreover, not all neologisms go viral. Thinking about all that might tangentialize a reader, and I should never divert a train of thought from its thread track, which of course a lengthy explanation of the editing of a short post would never do. Fortunately I can blame as needed my weaknesses for imagery and for ad hoc and even fun neologisms, confessing my humility as a bonus.

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 Originally Posted By: morphememedley
...and I should never divert a train of thought from its thread track...

Never a tongue-in-cheeker word was spoken! (or should that be tonguer-in-cheek?

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further research furthering the worthless word:

recent inclusion in OED online [DRAFT REVISION Mar. 2007] gives the earliest citation as 1931 H. WITHERS Everybody's Business ix. 161 Certainly he is an absentee..—if he adopted the habit of dropping in at the works and making well-meant suggestions.., is it likely that his presenteeism would be helpful?

a news google generates 38 hits between 1940 and 1950, and 24 in the last month.


edit: fwiw, here's a link to Everybody's Business
-joe (I'm here) friday

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 Originally Posted By: tsuwm
further research furthering the worthless word:

recent inclusion in OED online [DRAFT REVISION Mar. 2007] gives the earliest citation as 1931 H. WITHERS Everybody's Business ix. 161 Certainly he is an absentee..—if he adopted the habit of dropping in at the works and making well-meant suggestions.., is it likely that his presenteeism would be helpful?

a news google generates 38 hits between 1940 and 1950, and 24 in the last month.


edit: fwiw, here's a link to Everybody's Business
-joe (I'm here) friday


There could be a little more context but that doesn't look like it's the same definition.

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>There could be a little more context..

well, that's why I provided the link!!

-joe (sheesh) friday

edit: and here is the OED def'n entire:

The fact or condition of being present, esp. at work; (Brit.) (a) the practice of working more hours than is required by one's terms of employment, or of continuing to work without regard to one's health, esp. because of perceived job insecurity; (b) the practice of attending a job but not working at full capacity, esp. because of illness or stress.
Usually opposed to absenteeism.

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 Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
Including his two references to William Safire.

It may have been an OCR problem. This book either silently corrects Wallace or correctly cites him: link). And for three other views of DFW and on snootism: (link, link, and link).


yes, FWIW I've just read the offending(?) piece as reprinted in Foster's collection of essays, Consider the Lobster. It's easy to see there how the OCR got confused into reading the 'f' as a 't'. There are no 'Satire's, other than (possibly) Wallace's own posturing as an expert.

-joe (the imposture) friday

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