fapp and phallologocentrism

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/11/2014 09:06 PM, Christopher Philippo wrote:
>On Sep 11, 2014, at 8:57 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole 
><adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> > Appearance in Urban Dictionary indicates a minimum guaranteed
> > prevalence for slang terms, i.e., frequency of use: at least once.
>
>That seems overoptimistic, unless by "at least once" you mean one 
>person inventing it solely for UD and then nobody, not even the 
>author, ever using it.

In other words, prevalence is not provenance.  (I did get the joke, however.)

JSB 

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