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[Mark Mandel]

Indeed. I suspect that "micro-list" is used in contexts where lists are
usually long.

Mark Mandel


On Thu, Nov 8, 2018, 2:08 PM Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com wrote:

> ...
> The microlist item in particular surprised me. I think of a list as three
> or more connected items and I don’t think a microlist would be one or two
> items, which leaves the question of the size of such a list.
>
> ...
> Perhaps this meaning of “micro” is “smaller than conventional or typically
> expected.”
>

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