Thuggonomics certainly predated the Levitt/Dubner book (I remember idly wondering whether there were subfields of international thuggonomics, macrothuggonomics, thuggometrics, etc), so this might too.
My four year old daughter recently started to word “cube” to be “frozen”, due to a misunderstanding of what part of the word “ice cube” referred to which characteristic of the item. If you think about it, it kind of makes 4-year-old-logical sense.
Is there a term for things like that, or the use of –nomics as a suffix, where exactly the wrong part of the word or phrase gets assigned the meaning?
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arthur 09.01.07 at 5:21 am
Whoa, that made even less sense than the crime and abortion paper.
almostinfamous 09.01.07 at 4:22 pm
i guess this is the ‘max power’ way of economics then?
(for non-simpson geeks, the meaning:
Homer: From now on, there are three ways to do things: the right way, the wrong way, and the Max Power way.
Bart: Isn’t that just the wrong way?
Homer: Yeah, but faster! )
dsquared 09.01.07 at 5:56 pm
Thuggonomics certainly predated the Levitt/Dubner book (I remember idly wondering whether there were subfields of international thuggonomics, macrothuggonomics, thuggometrics, etc), so this might too.
Rich B. 09.01.07 at 6:11 pm
My four year old daughter recently started to word “cube” to be “frozen”, due to a misunderstanding of what part of the word “ice cube” referred to which characteristic of the item. If you think about it, it kind of makes 4-year-old-logical sense.
Is there a term for things like that, or the use of –nomics as a suffix, where exactly the wrong part of the word or phrase gets assigned the meaning?
Chris Bertram 09.01.07 at 7:29 pm
Former Chelsea player and current Leeds manager Denis Wise has to be the leading microthuggonomist.
dsquared 09.01.07 at 8:46 pm
hmmm, maybe there’s a controversy within hustlernomics between the neo-classical hustleronomists and heterodox thuggonomists.
engels 09.01.07 at 8:48 pm
My four-year-old cousin uses the word “gavagai” to mean rabbit, when, as everyone knows, it really means “undetached rabbit part”.
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