zompist bboard

sirdanilot wrote: Sounds abominable to me.

It's pretty handy, actually, and it's shorter than saying "Somewhat [like] x, but not too much."

What did you use to typeset this document?

To me this seems likely to be a result of the general tendency many English speakers have to drop the first syllable in a sentence when unstressed. For instance:

"[I'm] going to the store."
"[You] going to the store?"
"[Where]'s he going?"
"[Be]fore we go to the store."