"Subrespond"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Jan 4 01:59:58 UTC 2007


"Do you mind if I subrespond?" In a TV commercial.

It appears to mean something like, "Do you mind if I respond before
you've finished making your point?"

Not in either Google or the OED Online. Google yields about 660 hits
for "sub-respond" as a technical term in programming, plus stuff like
"how does a sub[marine] respond ..."

-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Sam'l Clemens

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