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12/17/2000 9:28 PM
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I saw this word today - any ideas?
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12/17/2000 11:28 PM
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Gapologist. Yes, it's obvious. I become one every month when I examine the difference between what I've been paid and what I think I'm worth. And it does appear to have an economic connection. The only reference I could find to it, however is: http://www.rdues.liv.ac.uk/frames/ind951.htmlNot particularly satisfying or explanatory.
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12/18/2000 2:21 AM
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gapology would appear to be a neologism popularized in economic circles and applied to the study of production gaps, housing gaps, etc.
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12/18/2000 6:17 AM
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tsuwm said: gapology would appear to be a neologism popularized in economic circles and applied to the study of production gaps, housing gaps, etc.
While not arguing with your definition, which seems reasonable given the quote I dredged up earlier, I think that "popularised" is probably overstating the case. I keep up with the economic journals, and I don't remember seeing it used. I'd say it was coined and used within a very small circle of economists.
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12/18/2000 12:24 PM
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when I examine the difference between what I've been paid and what I think I'm worthSo give the surplus to a deserving charity! 
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12/18/2000 12:50 PM
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when I examine the difference between what I've been paid and what I think I'm worth
So give the surplus to a deserving charity!Tell your boss the same, mav. 
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12/18/2000 1:17 PM
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the same...
... and I thought we were bosom buddies?!
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12/18/2000 1:31 PM
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... and I thought we were bosom buddies?!Well, Auntie, if you want to borrow my falsies, just ask.
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12/18/2000 3:25 PM
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It's a teenager explaining why his parents didn't buy his clothes at LL Bean.
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12/18/2000 3:47 PM
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TEd suggests: It's a teenager explaining why his parents didn't buy his clothes at LL Bean.
It does have a ring of portmanteau to it, doesn't it?
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12/18/2000 5:57 PM
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Faldage comments: It does have a ring of portmanteau to it, doesn't it?
That is the case, yes.
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12/18/2000 6:34 PM
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CK caught me up: I keep up with the economic journals, and I don't remember seeing it
used. I'd say it was coined and used within a very small circle of economists.
I asked my staff economist [insert 'straight-face' icon here] and she replied "nope, i have never heard that word used. sounds more like a "joke" to me."
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12/18/2000 6:44 PM
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Poster: Capital Kiwi Subject:Re: gapologist Re: imperatrix Re: The Teaching of English - NOT Re: classic Re: Which v That Re: I'm not a kangaroo either Re: Psalm Language Re: US Pronunciation Re: Stray double-yous all these in the past hour! looks like cap's racing fisk for the record for most posts in a day (week, month...). careful cap you'll burn yourself out!(i won't even bother including ALL of today's posts...)
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12/18/2000 7:37 PM
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Xara notes: all these in the past hour! looks like cap's racing fisk for the record for most posts in a day (week, month...). careful cap you'll burn yourself out!(i won't even bother including ALL of today's posts...)
I'll let you into a secret. I'm running a program over and over to test it on my other computer. Each run takes about twenty minutes - Monte Carlo simulations. That gives me twenty minutes at a time to do something else.
Would you prefer I shut up?
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12/18/2000 7:44 PM
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I found another citation. It's from a Forbes magazine article FEASTING ON THE GIANT PEACH quoted here http://www.seas.upenn.edu:8080/~gaj1/feastgg.html. Scroll down to NEW SCARCITY, NEW ABUNDANCE . It's in the ninth paragraph. Finding stagnation and poverty and agonizing over new wealth, Morgan Stanley gapologist Stephen Roach plumbs the shallows of NIPA (National Income and Product Accounts) for all the world like the CIA economists who found the Soviets exceeding the United States in growth for 17 years.This gives us a little more context.
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12/18/2000 7:59 PM
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[ i]gapologist I saw this word today - any ideas? In the 1940s there was an advertising campaign to get women to replace the snaps on the sides seams of their dresses because the snaps came undone and caused the fabric to part thereby showing (at best) a part of the lady's slip or (at worst)  some of her skin! Heaven Forefend! The condition was called : Gaposis.The remedy, insert a Talon zipper!  They sold a LOT of zippers. Metal teeth in those days, then came WWII and no zippers for civilians. After the war that miracle Nylon and then Velcro and awaaay we go.  wow P.S. Wish they'd put Velcro on bras instead of snaps...make them easier to adjust and close. What do you say gals? Men are invited to keep quiet... we know what you-all think. Right Jackie? wow
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12/18/2000 8:12 PM
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thanks for reminding me, reverso-mom...
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 11:35:40 -0600 (CST)
Subject: today's wwftd is... gaposis
To: wwftd minions <tsuwm@aol.com>
the worthless word for the day is: gaposis
a gap between buttoned buttons or closed snaps on a garment
this week: words I wouldn't have thought were needed
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12/18/2000 8:19 PM
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Faldage : I know you did not write the memo but submitted it for a possible answer. But I am moved to say : Morgan Stanley gapologist Stephen Roach if he wants to close the gap can talonologist be too far behind . .. or is it too far out! Roach plumbs the shallows of NIPA I've heard "plumb the depths" but the shallows  ??? for all the world like the CIA economists who found the Soviets exceeding the United States in growth for 17 years.Wasn't the Agency the entity that overestimated all things Soviet during the Cold War thereby causing USA to spend oodles more on defense than was necessary? The spell check wants to substitute cicadas for CIA ... in this case somewhat appropriate! Wasn't there a thread about this type of writing...memos or some such? wow
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12/18/2000 8:32 PM
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The Wise one whispers: I've heard "plumb the depths" but the shallows ???The whole article is written somewhat tongue in cheek. The comparison with the CIA, among other clues, suggests to me that the author doesn't think too much of gapology. Hah! We been looking for the wrong word: From an editorial in the June 97 issue of Housing Policy and ProspectsGapology
"Gapology" measures the difference between housing demand and supply and, therefore, attempts to capture the presence of inflationary pressures in the housing market. In the early nineties, for example, the view existed that prices were falling because of an excess supply of dwellings. In fact, the model allows us to make an estimate of the gap in terms of the owner-occupier housing stock. Since the house price equation is, in effect, derived by inverting a housing demand relationship, it can be re-inverted to obtain an estimate of the desired housing stock that households would wish to hold. This can be compared with the actual stock of dwellings.
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12/18/2000 8:49 PM
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The condition was called Gaposis.
And if you had Gaposis of the teeth, and food particles got caught in them, did this cause halitology?
Also, at the risk of having my hands smacked for speaking up when not invited, let me tell you girls that you don't want zippers on bras. Any man can tell you about injuries sustained from zippers on pants.
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12/19/2000 3:05 AM
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In reply to:
From an editorial in the June 97 issue of Housing Policy and Prospects
Gapology
"Gapology" measures the difference between housing demand and supply and, therefore, attempts to capture the presence of inflationary pressures in the housing market. In the early nineties, for example, the view existed that prices were falling because of an excess supply of dwellings. In fact, the model allows us to make an estimate of the gap in terms of the owner-occupier housing stock. Since the house price equation is, in effect, derived by inverting a housing demand relationship, it can be re-inverted to obtain an estimate of the desired housing stock that households would wish to hold. This can be compared with the actual stock of dwellings.
A rather grandiose title, then, for a practitioner of basic economic analysis. The blood may have rushed to their heads because they actually had some up-to-date hard data to work with. This isn't usually the case in economics.
I must tout that one around the trade ...
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12/19/2000 6:25 AM
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In the early nineties, for example, the view existed that prices were falling because of an excess supply of dwellings.
So there were no homeless in the early nineties? Or they just didn't like dwellings?
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So there were no homeless in the early nineties? Or they just didn't like dwellings?
No, but being an article on economics, some things were assumed. The theory of economics talks about "willing buyers and willing sellers", but what it means is "qualified buyers and willing sellers". Those who aren't qualified (i.e. can't afford houses) aren't considered to be part of the market.
Ergo, an oversupply of houses with the homeless sleeping in the streets. Doesn't upset the model at all!
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12/19/2000 1:04 PM
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Bobyoungbalt : at the risk of having my hands smacked for speaking up when not invited, let me tell you girls that you don't want zippers on bras. Any man can tell you about injuries sustained from zippers on pants.Now, see? You got all flustered and mis-read it. I said it would be nice to have Velcro, repeat Velcro, on bras. We already have bras with zippers! Aha! obviously you have missed something! Chuckle, chuckle, wow
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12/20/2000 3:32 PM
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Just thought that I'd let you all into my little gotcha. I set you all a little challenge to see how many posts you could create from a word use question. I didn't see "gapologist" used. I just found it a site of neologisms. You do get commendation for a) Answering the question and b) Meandering pleasantly. No-one even suggested that I should LIU!
If you see the thread which/that discusses how threads develop, this is a perfect example. It made three pages in three days, now it is sinking down the list.
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12/20/2000 4:16 PM
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"I asked my staff economist... and she replied "...i have never heard that word used. sounds more like a "joke" to me.""
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12/20/2000 4:18 PM
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>sounds more like a "joke" to me
So cool! And that was your third post on the subject???
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12/20/2000 4:33 PM
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yes, well, credit to her, not to me.
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12/20/2000 9:15 PM
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I set you all a little challenge to see how many posts you could create from a word use question.
Well, aren't you the tricky little sociologist?
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12/20/2000 9:55 PM
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tsuwm's staff economist suggests: sounds more like a "joke" to me
The Forbes article was pretty tongue in cheek. You'd have to expect that from something titled Feasting on the Giant Peach.
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12/20/2000 10:21 PM
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>Well, aren't you ...
I'm starting to feel the need for sackcloth and ashes!
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12/20/2000 10:27 PM
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>The Forbes article was pretty tongue in cheek
Looks like the joke was theirs after all. With jokes like that it sounds like we should give economists their own prime time comedy show.
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