Talk:hurriquake
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— SURJECTION / T / C / L / 08:30, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
- It's getting hits in recent news stories ... do those not count as CFI? There was something a few years back (in Puerto Rico?) too ... this is definitely not the first time I've seen this word. This might spur me to work on getting an entry for blizznado too. —Soap— 15:53, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
- I could only find one match referring to the hurricane-earthquake sequence in Puerto Rico, perhaps because there was a three-month gap between the two events, whereas in California they were just a few days apart. And that one match I found is metaphorical, so it can't be used to cite this. Even so, there are plenty of hits in news stories for Hurricane Hilary so unless we're not counting them all i'd say this is citable. I get the faint impression that it may be even spreading to metaphorical use .... " is a useful allegory for how we push the Media industry out of its catastrophic Hurriquake" .... but most of the hits I see on Google won't go through to the actual text, leading me to believe that they are reading ephemeral sidebar stories that come and go like the wind. (and its possible that the use above was followed by another word that would make it clear it was about the storm). —Soap— 17:45, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
- Just to clarify: Hilary was already downgraded to a tropical storm before it reached California, and the area that was noticeably affected by the earthquake was far to the west of where the tropical-storm-force winds and serious flooding were- the distance was more geographical than temporal. Chuck Entz (talk) 19:29, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
- @Soap: If it were only Hilary it would need to be a hot word, but as you suggested it looks like it's sporadically attested before this year, e.g. here at WaPo and a handful of times on Usenet (ignoring references to the nail brand). I've added a grabbag of citations including two from the recent one. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 10:17, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
- I could only find one match referring to the hurricane-earthquake sequence in Puerto Rico, perhaps because there was a three-month gap between the two events, whereas in California they were just a few days apart. And that one match I found is metaphorical, so it can't be used to cite this. Even so, there are plenty of hits in news stories for Hurricane Hilary so unless we're not counting them all i'd say this is citable. I get the faint impression that it may be even spreading to metaphorical use .... " is a useful allegory for how we push the Media industry out of its catastrophic Hurriquake" .... but most of the hits I see on Google won't go through to the actual text, leading me to believe that they are reading ephemeral sidebar stories that come and go like the wind. (and its possible that the use above was followed by another word that would make it clear it was about the storm). —Soap— 17:45, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
RFV-passed This, that and the other (talk) 01:57, 4 December 2023 (UTC)