As Tubemonkey said, welcome to the madhouse. I'm your unfriendly neighborhood curmudgeon.
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Have cross posted to the lounge in a new thread - just wanted to see if anyone else had heard (or read) it used in spoken or written language.
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There's nothing wrong with asking if people have seen it -- that's an interesting question. It's interesting enough to deserve its own thread, not just be tacked on to some discussion of an old list of annoying words.
Cross-posting, though, is bad. Don't do it.
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as this thread was the one that led me to this forum and this is the nearest matching topic of discussion thought I'd add it here.
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There are forums where starting new threads is discouraged, sometimes virulently, and if there is some even remotely related thread, no matter how many years dead, you are expected to attach a post to that (and thereby make someone read the whole ancient thread, which I've never really gotten) rather than starting a new topic. Apparently, new topics are the domain of the favored few, who decide what the thread titles will be, and not newbies. MobileRead is not one of those forums. If you've got something new to say, slap a new thread up there and say it.
Trust me, we're used to new threads. We're used to them being new even when they shouldn't be, like all the people who don't bother to search to see if there's a fix for their particular device problem and just post a thread entitled "Help!" asking about it ... when they could have had an answer from a few moments at the search box. If we can live with those, a new thread for a new subject is not a problem at all. You don't have to post to "the nearest matching topic of discussion" -- if it's not the
same, just "nearest", then clearly a new thread is needed.