Nonliners

D Harris cats22 at STNY.RR.COM
Sun Nov 23 16:20:28 UTC 2008


But 'slowfolk' would have been even worse!
dh

---- Michael Quinion <wordseditor at WORLDWIDEWORDS.ORG> wrote:
> A BBC report on Friday (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7736389.stm)
> used "nonliners" to mean those who were not online, specifically without a
> broadband connection. It's a curious neologism.

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