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16 December 2005

Paging Languagehat and other wordnerds There should be a name for the event of someone posting the same link you were typing up, and you see it on preview.

post by: theora55 at: 18:47 | 7 comments

Not every phenomenon needs a discrete name.

posted by kenko 16 December | 18:59

Pre-vu.

posted by WolfDaddy 16 December | 19:01

Damn, kenko beat me to it.

posted by Eideteker 16 December | 19:03

Isn't is just the intarweb version of "jinx" -- when two people say the same thing at the same time?

posted by scody 17 December | 00:18

Pre-vu! Ha!

posted by taz 17 December | 00:45

I can't do better.

Well, I did use "simulpost" a while back. And so have others.

posted by stilicho 17 December | 01:09

Simulpost and jinx would both work. The preview pane makes it easier to simulcomment, and I feel the need to add an explanatory (and innaccurate) comment. "Jinx" is worth a shot. What's the worst that could happen?

posted by theora55 18 December | 00:05

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