In response my follow-up to Pete's post re. garbled text, Mike G. wrote:
+1
I've seen this elsewhere recently, apparently as a terse indicator of
approbation.
Would someone kindly clue me in as to the origin of this usage?
Is this a facebookism? From TV reality shows? Games? Surely not a
direct offspring of Orwell's "double-plus-good". Some little channel of
current culture that hasn't made it into trogldyte's cave... [mutter]
ObFW:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/08/17/why-amazon-cant-make-a-kindle-in-the-usa/
(Part 1 with links to parts 2, 3 & 4)
The Gostak distims the Doshes,
- Mike
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