On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/20/2014 5:57 AM, John Hudson wrote:
>
>> Does "embiggen" convey any greater meaning than "enlarge" in the context
>> of the subject under discussion ?
>>
>
> It's just for fun, John. You could as easily use 'enlarge' to mean make
> bigger, if that's what you want. :-)
>
> In the middle of a serious discussion of physical optics, a leavening of
> modest humor can be nice.
>
> Someone else here (Paul?) used it first, some time ago. Whether it
> migrated here from elsewhere, I don't know.
>
>
I do believe I'm to blame, but I got it from somewhere else online -
actually I think it's tech columnist John C. Dvorak's blog where he'd post
an image with "click to embiggen" next to it.
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Paul Braun
Certified Music Junkie
"Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." -- Berthold Auerbach
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