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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This isn’t new. You’re talking about using disappear as a transitive verb, which is usually reserved for describing people being killed/kidnapped like by a political regime. Not sure of the origin, though.[/quote] But it is grammatically incorrect. So when did it become mainstream?[/quote] I seem to remember the word being used first that way in connection with Argentina's dictatorship, and making its way to English via news stories or something. But I think some friends in college used it before that--like how you and your group of people spontaneously create different ways of using words, kind of your group dialect, just like families do. It also works well as a verb if you think about it. "He disappeared the money" has a connotation other phrasing misses. [/quote]
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