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Chris -- 2018-04-11
An invention of our children, now in common usage in the family, referring to the immobility of one’s legs and inability to move or get out of bed following a long trip across multiple time zones. “I can’t get up, I have jet leg” or “I am afraid of going to America this year Mom, because I always get really bad jet leg”.
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Alternately, “leg” could refer to a section of the journey, a leg of the trip. The person saying “I have jet leg” could be thinking about a condition that arises from taking a trip with many legs.
It’s almost impossible to know if someone is thinking about immobility of the lower limbs when they talk about “jet leg” because there really is a condition known as “jet leg”—deep vein thrombosis from constricted blood flow, an all-too-common syndrome experienced by jet passengers, especially older passengers, on today’s long, smooth flights.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Is that anything like traumbosis?
About 4 days after I had seizure, which led to a traumbosis(fancy for stroke).
(http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuse … D=24801638)
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