Short version: When I write veg*n, it is meant to cover both vegetarian and vegan all at once.
Explanation: I come at the term from a computer science perspective, I don't know if other people are doing the same. In compsci, * is a wildcard meant to be replaced by whatever text of whatever length. So on some search engines, if you wanted, for some reason, to look for both "parlance" and "parliament", you would put in "parl*" and everything that starts with parl would show up. So with veg*n, both varieties show up.
Thus I need a veg*n userpic; I don't care if it's vegetarian or vegan per se :]
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branchandroot
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Date: 2006-11-03 08:44 pm (UTC)Explanation: I come at the term from a computer science perspective, I don't know if other people are doing the same. In compsci, * is a wildcard meant to be replaced by whatever text of whatever length. So on some search engines, if you wanted, for some reason, to look for both "parlance" and "parliament", you would put in "parl*" and everything that starts with parl would show up. So with veg*n, both varieties show up.
Thus I need a veg*n userpic; I don't care if it's vegetarian or vegan per se :]