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[timepiececlock]

CNN guy: "...now more on this continental kerfluffle."

Did CNN just say "kerfluffle"?

Alliteratively?

Today is a weird day.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

The mind. It boggles.

I wonder if...it got picked up from blogs...?

[herongale]

I seem to recall that William Safire even discussed the word in his New York Times column on language a while ago, but I don't really remember what he was saying about it.

Still.. I think kerfluffle is a word which has simply become fashionable over the past few years. I don't know if the bloggers are following or setting the trend, but "kerfluffle" is a word that is definitely growing in popularity these days.

I wish I was more of a linguist, I don't know enough to make this interesting for you. :)

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I've never heard it anywhere except on the internet, and I've always heard it primarily on LJ, only somewhat on messageboards or forums. I associate it completely with LJ in my mind, like "friending" someone or "wank" in the sense of fandom_wank. To me, kerfluffle was something you typed or said to other LJ people you were talking to in real life, not something non-LJ people said in real life. And definitely NOT something that people on tv say.

Weird. Just... weird. My internet language is being co-opted by RL. Or RL is being co-opted by internet lingo.