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minus-squareSirSamuel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·8 months agoI’m kinda curious. Did the Simpsons invent ‘yoink’ or did it exist before 1988?
minus-squareOphioparma@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 months ago the word “yoink,” a coinage of Meyer’s, which characters sometimes utter in the act of snatching something https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2000/03/13/taking-humor-seriously That implies invention by Meyer, doesn’t it?
minus-squareVigilante@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-28 months agoDo tag me if someone answers.
minus-squareSirSamuel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoI don’t know how to tag but i got an answer in this thread
I’m kinda curious. Did the Simpsons invent ‘yoink’ or did it exist before 1988?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2000/03/13/taking-humor-seriously
That implies invention by Meyer, doesn’t it?
Nice! Thank you that’s awesome
Do tag me if someone answers.
I don’t know how to tag but i got an answer in this thread
Thanks