Thread: Snail-reading on paper, could we call it that?
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Old 11-22-2009, 04:54 PM   #42
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But this "research" did lead me to a new word ....."snailpaper" or "snail-paper"...for the snail version of the local print newspaper which usually arrives on my doorstep in the morning with news that is already 12 hours old and stale...

do you like that term, Darren? Snailpaper...for print editions of newspapers, which likely will be dinosaurs in a few years anyways?
Given that the scenario you present has been true or worse ever since the invention of newspapers it seems more than a bit stupid to try and rename them now because of it, but it does seem inevitable these days for people try to invent pointless new words to needlessly differentiate something from an existing word.
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