"Mountweazel" & "Nihilartikel" [Was: Red herring definitions]

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Wed Sep 28 00:55:13 UTC 2005


Who invented "Nihilartikel", and when?  Wikipedia?

Joel

At 9/27/2005 03:09 PM, Iwrote:
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>Subject:      Re: "Mountweazel" & "Nihilartikel" [Was: Red herring
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>At 9/27/2005 02:43 PM, I wrote:
> >Will "Mountweazel" now become the category name for such fake
> >entries?
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>Apparently not, there is already a borrowed word,
>"Nihilartikel".  Many more Google citations than "Mountweazel".
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>Joel



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