I've been following Vegan Lunchbox lately and as a result I've been reading some vegetarian boards and sites. I noticed some people type "veg*n" instead of "vegan" and that confuses me. Does anyone know why they do it?
My completely uneducated guess would be that they're using * as a wildcard rather than typing "vegetarian/vegan". Does that work in context, or are they talking about things which are only relevant to vegans?
In (some) computing environments, the star stands for any number of letters, instead of just one. I reckon it's a usage that came from computerisms, representing both veg(itaria)n and veg(a)n. Plenty of computer geeks are (unlike me) veggies and/or vegans.
After I asked the question I went and checked one of the FAQs. Although I have seen a few posters refer to themselves as "veg*n" which kind of threw me.
In which case, they probably meant "somewhere between vegitarian and vegan, i.e. I cheat now and then". Either that, or they just weren't hip to the lingo... ;-)
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