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I think this must be a local sub-culture word, as a Spaniard I've never heard "muertiposa" and google search for "muertiposa" literally returns me no results.
by franciscop 3y ago
I think this must be a local sub-culture word, as a Spaniard I've never heard "muertiposa" and google search for "muertiposa" literally returns me no results.
- kragen 3y agoit's very, very local. my wife made it up, and this is probably the first time it's been posted to the web
- bgun 3y agoDefinitely going to be stealing this now though! :)
- kragen 3y agocc0 ;)
- thaumasiotes 3y agoThere was apparently a debate in wiktionary's early days over how (and whether) to license their content. They ended up licensing it, which seems wrong to me.
- kragen 3y agoa word isn't copyrightable under at least usa copyright law, but a definition can be if it involves enough creative expression, which i think most of them probably do
- stavros 3y agoThe GP does say "_I've_ adopted", seems pretty specific to them.
- franciscop 3y agoTrue, but when searching for it there's no results? Like I expected that to be a thing in some sub-community and adopted by GP. Otherwise, wouldn't it be more accurate to say "I/we've created"?
- stavros 3y agoI think they may have meant "adapted", as in "created the portmanteau", but I'm not sure.
- thaumasiotes 3y agoI think "adopted" works fine. You can adopt a manner of speech the same way you can adopt a habit. The practice you adopt can be preexisting, but doesn't have to be. It's sense (2) here: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adopt https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adopt .