It has come to my attention that people are using the word "Googlegänger" to mean another person who comes up when you google yourself.
Good, well-intentioned coinage, but unfortunately it's wrong.
Googlegänger is a blend of "Google" and the German "Dopplegänger", meaning an exact double of a person. "Dopplegänger" itself is a blend of "dopple" meaning double, and "gänger" meaning literally "goer".
So as you can see, whoever coined "Googlegänger" inadvertently chose the wrong part of Dopplegänger to retain. A more accurate word would be "Doppelgoogler".
As a special incentive program, I have been authorized to permit anyone who switches from Googlegänger" to "Doppelgoogler" to use an umlaut on the O of their choice for purely aesthetic reasons, even though it is lexically incorrect.
1 comment:
... except, of course, that 'Googler', from its form, should mean someone who googles (i.e. searches on Google), not someone who is googled (i.e. the result of a Google search). How about 'Doppelgooglee' ?
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