There's a word for it, there's an organization for that...and probably you can google and get a support group for addicts too...
I generally tend to run foul of the "name-for-it" Nazi when I post the name of a bird (as it might be, the red-billed blue magpie) and get strident corrections (NO! it is the ORANGE-billed blue magpie). I am told that there are 37,000 species of stick insects or something else whose name eludes me now... Deepa. On 3/2/07, Vinayak Hegde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 3/2/07, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 01:03:19PM +0530, Alok G. Singh wrote: > > I recently found that the phenomenon even has a name: "being > > Warnocked" [1]. > Cool. There's probably also a name for things that don't > yet have names, too. Interestingly, the theme of the week for AWAD[1] is "There is a word for it" [2] -- Vinayak 1. http://wordsmith.org/awad/index.html 2. http://wordsmith.org/awad/archives/0307
