virus: introverbophilic (fwd)

Eva-Lise Carlstrom (eva-lise@efn.org)
Thu, 24 Apr 1997 22:58:11 -0700 (PDT)


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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 00:15:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Barton Chittenden <tiger@iglou.com>
To: Eva-Lise Carlstrom <eva-lise@efn.org>
Subject: introverbophilic (fwd)

thought this might strike your fancy; I don't find the word quite graceful
enough, but it is clever.

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Date: 23 Apr 1997 03:41:59 GMT
From: Marc Fleury <tetsuo@fox.nstn.ca>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.hofstadter
Subject: introverbophilic

over in rec.puzzles, dylanw@demon.net (Dylan O'Donnell) wrote:

>Fred the Wonder Worm <ftww@cs.su.oz.au> wrote:
>>introverbophile (n): One who likes introducing new words into the language.

>"introverbophilic" would be one of Hofstadter's self-defining words,
>wouldn't it? Though it would cease to be so once people had used it
>for a while, which makes it rather unusual...

I thought I'd port this over here, in case anyone might be interested.

-- Fleury.