> I couldn't find the specific origin of the +1 but I've seen it
> around as an (obvious) short-hand and mostly in the back and forth
> of somewhat techietalk email discussions of the Slashdot, Cluetrain
> variety,...
Me too, but only fairly recently. I was hoping a user of the locution
would know the origin. It may be a failing that I'm (bordering on
compulsively) curious about new terms and locutions that pop suddenly
(or seem to me to do so) into widepsread usage. [1]
So google helped me out. Inter alia:
A shorthand Internet meme signifying "I agree" or "yes" (often with
a quoted post) on Internet forums, blogs and similar media
Knew that, altho +1 imples increment rather than parallel, agreement,
congruence, identity or the like.
Originally a way of voting on mailing lists and forums, used by
the Apache Software Foundation and other open source
organizations.
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/%2b1
Ah-ha. Makes more sense. A vote increments a finite countable set by
one.
Happy now. :-)
- Mike
[1] Call it "amateur naive linguistics with sprinkles".
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