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I literally just learned "bog-standard" 10 minutes ago and now I see it here. And no, don't Baader-Meinhof me, I would have noticed this weird term in random te
by cdelsolar 7y ago
I literally just learned "bog-standard" 10 minutes ago and now I see it here. And no, don't Baader-Meinhof me, I would have noticed this weird term in random text in the past.
- coldtea 7y ago>I would have noticed this weird term in random text in the past. Well, no so weird, I'm not a native english speaker, and I've seen the term hundreds of times over the years... It's also quite common on HN: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+bog+standard&oq=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+bog+standard https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...
- viraptor 7y agoWould you though? Appears at least once a week: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=bog-standard&sort=byDate&type=all https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- zepto 7y agoBaader-Meinhof denial!
- sblom 7y agoBaader-Meinhof Dunning-Kruger?
- perl4ever 7y agoI'm aware of the terms "bog" and "bog-standard", but not being from the UK, I'm not sure what is so standard about bogs.