"Refer" directions

[Gordon, Matthew J.]

For the record, the "refer back" was quoted from Neil Whitman's blog post, not Facebook.

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From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Joel S. Berson [Berson at ATT.NET]
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 6:41 AM
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Subject: Re: "Refer" directions

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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