Comments on: savbuck: half a sawbuck

By: Tom Clancy

Tom Clancy — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:10:38 +0000

I’ll stick with “fin”.

By: Josh Millard

Josh Millard — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:47:05 +0000

Also, I’d like to imagine a greek philopher Kibo remembered primarily for this paradox:

Q: If a sawbuck is ten dollars, and a savbuck half a sawbuck, then what is a savbuck?
A: A double sawbuck, same as in town.

By: language hat

language hat — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:44:22 +0000

Curses! Foiled again!

By: Josh Millard

Josh Millard — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:46:50 +0000

You can’t ever totally prove that I wasn’t using “languagehat discovers” in some euphemistic sense along the lines of “the site languagehat notes a process of discovery of”, can you?

No. No, you cannot.

By: language hat

language hat — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:37:39 +0000

Hey now! Anatoly Vorobey had just discovered the word; I, as you will discover if you read the post with your glasses on, have “known the word as long as I can remember.”