"Refer" directions

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Tue Mar 9 12:41:20 UTC 2010


At 3/9/2010 03:32 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>Facebook uses _refer back_? Too bad. If I learned that _back_ is here
>redundant at the age of three, I refuse to unlearn it at the age of
>73. Language-change be damned!

Does it use "refer forward"?  I do sometimes.

Joel

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