madrid@auvax (Roslyn Madrid) (08/09/83)
Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Pedants, Please Posted: Mon Jul 25 14:25:31 1983 Although it seems to me to be a perfectly good Anglo-Saxon word, it seems others feel it is unacceptable. Could someone explain what is at stake here? R. auvax!madrid
stuart@rochester.UUCP (Stuart Friedberg) (08/14/83)
While it hasn't been blessed by a long period of usage, there are two interpretations of "repost". One would be to send again; the other would be to send back (a la "riposte"). Both meanings are entirely consistent with the (several) uses of the prefix "re-". I tend to accept straightforward formulations of "new" words. Repost makes sense to me, although I would probably use "post again".