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For the uninitiated, which meme is this ?

It's part of DoggoLingo[0], a meme-filled Internet lexicon (or... something). It's all in good fun, and I don't understand why anybody could be upset by it. Sure, he could've called this "SmallTCP" and been bland, but decided to inject some (silly) humour. Plenty of other projects are similarly named.[1]

It reminds me of the words "cromulent"[2] and "embiggen"[3]; coined by The Simpsons but used in everything from BBC articles to scientific research.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoggoLingo

[1]: https://github.com/aras-p/smol-v

[2]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cromulent

[3]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/embiggen

While we're at it, the arrangement of spikes on a Stegosaurus' tail is called a thagomizer, after a Far Side cartoon. And it's actually referred to as such by real live paleontologists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer#Etymology

> It reminds me of the words "cromulent"[2] and "embiggen"[3]; coined by The Simpsons but used in everything from BBC articles to scientific research.

popularized by the simpsons, at least cromulent was a valid english word before the episode, I don't think embiggen was.

I don't think that's true. I can find no reference to "cromulent" existing pre-Simpsons, and every source explicitly says it was coined by David Cohen for an episode.

From Wiktionary: "A humorous, intentionally morphologically opaque neologism coined by American television writer David X. Cohen for 'Lisa the Iconoclast', a 1996 episode of the animated sitcom The Simpsons."

From Merriam-Webster: "It is safe to say that The Simpsons has contributed a great deal to the English language. One famous example is cromulent, which was coined specifically for the 1996 episode 'Lisa the Iconoclast'."

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