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bayareaguy on March 25, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Coding Horror: Paul Graham's Participatory Narciss...

Paul Graham's writing is radically aphatic

What does that mean? No online dictionary I regularly use lists "aphatic". Google turns up a geology term here[1] with a different spelling.

[1] - http://www.greengonzo.com/dictionary/Aphantec.html

gruseom on March 25, 2008 [–]

I made up "aphatic" to mean "not phatic", by analogy with "aphasia".

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