'Blob' was the nearest modern, common usage term I could locate to match
You illustrated a lack of knowledge of the definition of glob I was using, so I told you what it was in rough terms. In what universe is it a sane response to find another word with a similar definition I should have let you remain ignorant!!!
your totally inappropriate "amorphous lump" description.
Who are you talking to? I never described them as that.
I defy you to find one modern usage -- outside of a dictionary definition -- of the word 'glob' to mean "amorphous lump".
Easy, I've heard it hundreds of time. On Google, «"glob of"» returns a million results.
Even if you found one, it would still be totally inapproproriate. [sic]
You don't even know what it means, yet you know it's inappropriate? Wow, I knew you were closed minded, but that takes the cake.
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In what universe is it a sane response to find another word with a similar definition
The Universe of Ikegamisms, where you have to try and interpret sentences like "Blob has a very similar meaning to blob, but why would I have been thinking of blob?"(*); and make sense of concepts like using an archaic word(**) for "amorphous lump" to label a concrete, documented, regular data-structure.
(*Since silently modified. But nothing new about that!)
(** A word so archaic, that despite my above average vocabulary, I had never encountered this sense of, until I looked it up.)
Done now?
With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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If BrowserUk has never encountered before a word, it's "not modern", it's archaic. Despite gobbles of evidence of its existence. Couldn't spend one second to look for it?
We don't even speak the same dialect, yet you're sure that a word I've heard hundreds of times isn't a word. If Doctor Who is any indication, next you'll say that "toilet" (the fixture) and trunk (of a car) are not words either.
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I defy you to find one modern usage -- outside of a dictionary definition -- of the word 'glob' to mean "amorphous lump".
What? It's in the OED. Perhaps it's more prevalent in the US than on your island, but it's an active word with around a century of usage; etymologically it appears to be a combination of "globe" and "blob".
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