Wordie: Googleganger: Comments

Comment by simianaudio, about 1 month ago

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:57:22 +0000

I saw another good spin on this one on Twitter today - someone with your name with whom you battle for pagerank supremacy.

Comment by Prolagus, 4 months ago

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:25:43 +0000

Uh, ok! I didn't read the definition well enough, sorry.
Then, what's the name of such words?

Comment by sionnach, 4 months ago

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:11:08 +0000

FWIW, I don't think that 'gaydar' is a cranberry morpheme; if anything, it would be the 'dar' part.

I seem to recall reading an article recently which suggested that 'dango' was an up-and-coming cranberry morpheme.

Comment by Prolagus, 4 months ago

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:24:04 +0000

Here is another example of a cranberry morpheme, frindley:
gaydar!

(But it's not the kind of word you're looking for, is it?)

Comment by reesetee, 4 months ago

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:16:53 +0000

"Why do so many feel a connection — be it kinship or competition — with utter strangers just because they share a name?

"Social science, it turns out, has an answer. It is because human beings are unconsciously drawn to people and things that remind us of ourselves.

"A psychological theory called the name-letter effect maintains that people like the letters in their own names (particularly their initials) better than other letters of the alphabet." -- Stephanie Rosenbloom, "Names That Match Forge a Bond on the Internet," NYT Online, 4/10/08

Comment by reesetee, 4 months ago

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:31:52 +0000

Thank you, Don Prolagus.

Comment by Prolagus, 4 months ago

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:38:10 +0000

Good link monsieur reesetee!

Comment by reesetee, 4 months ago

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:06:55 +0000

Prolagus, are you thinking of aphesis?

Comment by bilby, 4 months ago

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:35:43 +0000

I'd include things like soyacino in this, because -cino is just a derivation from the diminuitive suffix -ino. It doesn't specifically have anything to do with coffee, it's just there due to to mental association with cappuccino.

Comment by mollusque, 4 months ago

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:27:08 +0000

Brain itch alert! I've seen such words too, frindley, but none are surfacing.

Comment by Prolagus, 4 months ago

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:03:25 +0000

And I will be happy to add words to that list!
The only example I remember right now is not exactly what you mean, but it's close enough: schoolbus, minibus etc. derive from omnibus, "for all" in Latin.

Comment by frindley, 4 months ago

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:46:33 +0000

I'm also reminded that there are other similar constructions in English, where the portion of the original word chosen for creation of a new word is the "wrong" bit for the intended meaning. Why can I not think of any examples? If I could I would be able to make a list.

Comment by frindley, 4 months ago

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:46:07 +0000

Although it be all wrong, I do like the alliterative potential of googleganger when translated "google goer".

Comment by seanahan, 4 months ago

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:03:22 +0000

Peck_Jon, you are brilliant, and correct. This term is hereby removed from the common usage. Unless of course, Google does a Yellow Pages spoof.

Comment by peck_jon, 4 months ago

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:46:21 +0000

Properly speaking, shouldn't the word be doppelgoogle? "Google double" makes a lot more sense than "Google walker"

From the German:
doppel = double
ganger = walker/wanderer

Comment by fbharjo, 4 months ago

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:12:28 +0000

googlehangeroner?? the galloping frugalgoogler?? a wiki(w)rid(t)er who stays in step or an orthodoxorthopedic

Comment by gangerh, 4 months ago

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:16:17 +0000

My googleganger is googlegangerh.

Comment by Prolagus, 4 months ago

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:37:22 +0000

I don't have a list for most of my wordworks, so they happen to be orphans (see e.g. sproutade).

Comment by plethora, 4 months ago

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:26:14 +0000

My googleganger is a Canadian TV personality. She is also my searchwikiaganger.

Comment by bilby, 4 months ago

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:45:57 +0000

Nobody is listing searchwikiaganger. Why don't you?

:-)

Comment by Prolagus, 4 months ago

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:20:11 +0000

Yeah, that's why I prefer the term searchwikiaganger.

Comment by bilby, 4 months ago

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:07:50 +0000

I hate neologisms that are Trojan horses for proprietary brand names.

Comment by Prolagus, 4 months ago

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:33:37 +0000

Sigh, my googleganger was a famous Italian photographer (soccer and Pope, very very Italian) who died in 2005.
Soccer and the Pope are 90% of the results for my name.
I hate soccer, and I'm atheist.

Comment by jonallen, 7 months ago

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:39:19 +0000

It's suchh a good word that the American Dialect Society have voted it the Most creative word of the year for 2007.

Comment by reesetee, 10 months ago

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:22:54 +0000

Good enough reason to become your googleganger, I'd say.

Comment by SonofGroucho, 10 months ago

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:36:30 +0000

One of my googlegangers is in business with his brother, and together they were reckoned to be worth £89 million in 2005.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:49:26 +0000

Gee, I feel sorta left out. Of googlegangers, I have none.

Then again, anyone lucky enough to spell my name correctly would definitely get a Googlestar.

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:45:48 +0000

I have an unusual first name but a very common last name. I'm always surprised how many googlegangers I have, and slightly disappointed. I grew up thinking I had a terribly unique name. But there's still only one me.

And I'm not aware of anyone else who goes by the name "uselessness" online, which I think is just fun. I mean, how many ordinary words are such a chore to say, and contain no fewer than 5 S's? And describe me so well, at that? :-D

Comment by chained_bear, about 1 year ago

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:41:46 +0000

For someone I live with, one of his two googlegangers is a gay travel writer, and one is a Grammy-award-winning sound engineer.

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:27:40 +0000

I have two primary googlegangers. One is a professor of Chinese at the University of Virginia, the other is a minister somewhere near Hobart, in Australia.

Comment by seanahan, about 1 year ago

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 17:14:43 +0000

This word definitely has its uses.

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 17:04:12 +0000

googleganger -- another person of the same name, whose records are intermixed with your own when you "google" yourself. I love this word! One could argue for an umlaut over the a, to make the parallel with doppelganger more complete, but either way, this coinage is genius!